Amazon's Zoox receives the NHTSA's first US approval for paid deployment of its steering wheel-free robotaxi and can deploy up to 2,500 per year through 2028 (Abhirup Roy/Reuters)

<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/amazons-zoox-wins-first-us-approval-paid-robotaxis-with-no-human-controls-2026-07-30/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260730/i26.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260730/p26#a260730p26" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Abhirup Roy / <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/amazons-zoox-wins-first-us-approval-paid-robotaxis-with-no-human-controls-2026-07-30/">Amazon's Zoox receives the NHTSA's first US approval for paid deployment of its steering wheel-free robotaxi and can deploy up to 2,500 per year through 2028</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Amazon's (AMZN.O) Zoox won U.S. approval on Wednesday for limited commercial deployment of its novel steering-wheel-free robotaxis &hellip; </p>