Amazon ranks first as the world’s most valuable brand.
Jeff Bezos’ company invoices more than 513 billion dollars annually worldwide.
In 2021, the autonomous vehicle market was valued at about $24 billion.
The advancement of technology has become imminent, the days of driving your car around the city could soon come to an end, and it is that the giant Amazon has taken a look at their new “robotaxis“They are about autonomous vehicles with capacity for up to four people, that’s how they look.
Amazon at the moment leads the retail market worldwideaccording to a study carried out in 2023 by Brand FinanceJeff Bezos’s company was listed as the one with the highest brand value, valued at more than 299 million dollars, surpassing Apple, which has a value of just over 297 million dollars, and in third place Google with more of 281 million dollars.
In addition to Amazonother of the companies that have ventured into the autonomous vehicle industry are Toyota, Baidu, Honda Motor and Fordwhich are positioned as the four companies with the most autonomous driving patents, according to a study carried out by LexisNexis PatentSight; Toyota was ranked number one thanks to its 1,284 patentsthis until 2021, followed by Baidu with 791, and in the last two positions Honda and Ford with 756 and 741 patents respectively.
Robotaxis, this is Amazon’s new bet
Jeff Bezos’s company continues to innovate and is not far behind in terms of autonomous vehiclesthe robotaxis were announced in 2020, by zooxa subsidiary of Amazon that develops autonomous cars, which are currently circulating on some streets in the state of California in the United States; It should be noted that this service is still in testing phase and is used by the same employees of the company.
The company is led by Andy Jassy, and they have invested heavily over the years in the development of autonomous driving, in fact the startup zoox was acquired by Amazon in 2020 for this purpose, the sale reached the figure of 1.3 billion dollars.
A video posted by zoox shows the progress that his research has had, the new “robotaxis” successfully drove between two company buildings in Foster City, California; These vehicles were created from scratch, without the help of an already existing base car, this in order to be able to drive without the need for a driverthese cars have four available places in the interior placed one in front of the other.
The carry the robotaxis to the public highway has been a challenge for the company, since these must be approved by the regulatory authorities, in this regard Aicha Evans, executive director of zoox express:
“Putting a vehicle on a public road and validating our approach to meet all the necessary requirements, including those of a regulatory nature, is a big step that we would not have taken if internally we were not contemplating its eventual commercial introduction”, explains Aicha Evans. , CEO of Zoox.
Is the future of machines? Day by day new updates and technologies are announced to make human life “easier”, such simple activities could easily be replaced in a not too distant time, with the rise and continuous development of Artificial Intelligence, autonomy is generated by part of the machines, and makes us people less masters of our actions in daily life, then, does the development of technology help the evolution or development of the human being?
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