Video of Zoox, Amazon’s new autonomous car

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Video of Zoox, Amazon's new autonomous car
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Since a time ago Amazon It has been developing an autonomous car and recently received authorization from US regulators to carry passengers, as tests have already been carried out in more real cases.

zoox is the company in charge of this project, which is focused on “an experience designed for passengers and not for drivers”, which is why it is seen as a robotaxi, which for now is being used with company workers.

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The autonomous car will be able to leave on weekends in good weather conditions

Through Reddit, Jesse Levinsonfounder and director of technology of the company that owns the car, gave more details about how the tests have been and the recent achievements after the endorsement of the California Department of Motor Vehicles to operate in normal traffic conditions, with and without passengers.

The manager said that the car has already traveled a circuit in real traffic conditions “dozens of times” and none of them presented any problems. In addition, the vehicle was not accompanied by some type of control unit.

Among the characteristics of the car, it stands out that it can reach up to 120 km/h, although it is only authorized to drive at 64 km/h, it must circulate in a delimited area in San Francisco, United States on Saturdays and Sundays during the day and in good weather conditions.

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Other aspects are that it does not have some kind of steering wheel, pedals, levers or any mechanism. For its operation it has sensors, radars LiDAR and cameras that allow a 360-degree vision and a perception distance of more than 150 m.

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Inside there is space for four passengers, with seats facing each other and its size is similar to that of a compact car.

For now, it can only transport company workers, while regulatory procedures continue so that it has the guarantee of driving through the streets.

According to The Vergeone of the complications to have these authorizations is the one that requests the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS)which requires cars of this type to have traditional controls to take command, something the vehicle does not.

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The company's autonomous car can carry up to four passengers and for now it serves as internal transportation in the company.

The company’s autonomous car can carry up to four passengers and for now it serves as internal transportation in the company.

Alexa has a new option to receive instructions without the voice

One of the most basic features of virtual assistants like sirithe Assistant Google and even alexa of Amazon, is that you can execute commands and provide instructions to your systems by speaking or by touching the screen of a remote control linked to the device.

However, Amazon has created a way to establish an alternative method of assigning tasks or commands without the need to use additional accessories and even the voice of people, but they will have the ability to use only their hands for these activities, so that the only thing that is will have to do is locate it in a default way so that the device of alexa activate a certain process.

This new function called “gestures” will allow people and alexa interact appropriately without needing to touch or press a button or say a word. The feature will only ask the user to raise their hand and show their palm towards the camera of an Echo Show 8 or Echo Show 10 device, which have the proper support to run this feature.

The devices EchoShow compatible with this feature can also implement this feature in case you have a person at home with a total or partial disability to speak and, therefore, issue instructions to the devices.