ADAD(Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) “We now have an even greater opportunity to realize a fully autonomous future,” Zoox chief executive Aicha Evans said in a statement. And last September, Amazon ordered 100,000 fully electric delivery vehicles from Plymouth, Mich.,-based Rivian, a company in which Amazon invested $440 million. The acquisition drew mocking from Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, which has its own autonomous-driving technology. At the time, Musk tweeted that the decision, which Amazon eventually reversed, was “insane” and that Amazon ought to be broken up.

Source: Washington Post June 26, 2020 15:50 UTC