Amazon's Zoox receives the NHTSA's first US approval for paid deployment of its steering wheel-free robotaxi and can deploy up to 2,500 per year through 2028
THE SO WHAT
Regulators blessing a steering wheel‑free robotaxi for paid service is a policy shift from "experiment" to "alternative transport mode." If your business depends on urban mobility, logistics, or curbside real estate, assume constrained but real AV volume in the next 2–3 years and start modeling routing, pricing, and partnership options.
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