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Zoox co - founder and CTO Jesse Levinson tell the crew at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 thathe did n’t reckon Teslawould found a robotaxi ride - hail service in California ( or anywhere else ) next class , despitewhat Elon Musk had claim . The “ central military issue is they do n’t have technology that work , ” he say at the time .
But it seems that Zoox is concerned in some of Tesla ’s top endowment . Amazon - owned Zooxposted earlierthis hebdomad on LinkedIn that it had hiredZheng Gaoas director of hardware engineering . Zheng was most recently at Tesla , where he pass eight years and was pass of Tesla ’s Autopilot ironware engineering team . Prior to Tesla , Zheng was at Apple for nine years .
Gao ’s departure from Tesla is notable . The EV Godhead led by Elon Musk is aiming to liberate an unsupervised version of its “ Full Self - Driving software package , ” which right now require a human driver to have their hand on the bike and be quick to take over at any metre .
