FOSTER CITY, Calif., Dec. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Autonomous mobility developer Zoox, Inc. today released “Safety Innovation at Zoox,” the company’s first safety assessment report provided to the Federal Government.
The report covers unique safety innovations that Zoox is pioneering during its testing phase that will be foundational to future commercialization. Today, Zoox tests its software and sensors on conventional vehicles with safety drivers across the San Francisco Bay Area. In the future, Zoox will operate a service of fully autonomous battery electric vehicles optimized for ride-sharing in cities.
“This report describes how Zoox strives to set the bar for safety in autonomous mobility and provides an understanding of how our autonomous vehicle technology works,” said Mark Rosekind, Chief Safety Innovation Officer at Zoox. Rosekind, most recently Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and a former Board Member on the National Transportation Safety Board added: “AV developers have an ongoing responsibility to develop proactive safety cultures and help educate the public and policymakers as the technology matures.”
“As NHTSA Administrator, we created the first framework for a safety assessment that the industry can use to inform all stakeholders about the safety innovations actually being developed,” Rosekind said. “This is a concrete example of how the industry is responding to that call for transparency.”
Jesse Levinson, Zoox’s co-Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer said: “Zoox was founded on the belief that safety innovation will come from end-to-end integration, and that’s why we are building a fully autonomous vehicle, the software to make it drive, and the service. As a developer, it’s important to have in place rigorous testing and validation regimes to ensure that an advanced mobility system is safe for the safety drivers who are testing our system, other road-users when our test vehicles are on the road, and eventually, our passengers. This report helps illustrate how we’re thinking holistically about safety.”
>Safety Innovation at Zoox is available at www.zoox.com/safety
About Zoox:
Zoox is a California-based robotics company founded to create the full realization of autonomous mobility. Operating at the intersection of computer science, electro-mechanical engineering and design, Zoox is a multidisciplinary team working together to imagine and create an advanced mobility experience—one that will address the needs of urban mobility for both people and the environment.
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Bert Kaufman
Zoox, Inc.
bert.kaufman@zoox.com
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