With Rumors Swirling of a Zoox Acquisition, How Would Amazon Use Autonomous Driving?

While still unconfirmed by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), the rumor makes enough sense. The e-commerce giant is spending a fortune making deliveries to customers' homes. Taking the cost of a delivery driver out of the equation could certainly help save the company some money.

Making robotaxi technology outfit Zoox part of the Amazon family, however, is far from simply putting its technology to use in a new way. The solution to one of Amazon's problems creates new logistics challenges to tackle.

Zoox has been working on driverless taxi technologies since it was founded in 2014. Like most of its rivals in the space, including Alphabet project Waymo and Uber, Zoox isn't a commercial success yet.

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