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Amazon's Zoox moves its face to face robotaxi to a Hayward production line targeting 100 vehicles a week, roughly three weeks before a smoke related software recall.
Zoox, Amazon's self-driving taxi subsidiary, has put its production-ready robotaxi on a Hayward, California line built to ship 100 vehicles a week as it expands beyond Las Vegas into Austin, Miami, Dallas, and Phoenix. The announcement lands a year after Zoox opened free public rides in Las Vegas and roughly three weeks before a software recall triggered when a robotaxi was confused by heavy smoke.
The vehicle is purpose-built rather than retrofitted: a four-seat cabin with no steering wheel or pedals, where passengers sit facing each other. Zoox framed the design as drawing on feedback from "more than half a million riders," a company-supplied figure, and pointed to external reflector changes that signal direction of travel. CNBC and Business Insider independently reported the 100-per-week production target.
The smoke recall tempers the production-ready framing. Zoox has not yet published ridership numbers, paid-revenue data, or regulatory clearances for the new cities. The line's output, and how the recall's fix holds up in the field, will determine whether the carriage-style cabin scales into a real fleet or stays a Las Vegas curiosity.