Amazon's $1.2 billion deal to buy Zoox shows just how

Amazon's $1.2 billion deal to buy Zoox shows just how hard building a self-driving car still is —and why even more startups could become buyout targets (AMZN, UBER, WMT)

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Published 03 Jul 2020

· Amazon's deal to buy self-driving car startup Zoox could foreshadow more deals to come.
· Autonomous vehicle technology is proving to be much harder to develop than early enthusiasts predicted.
· It could take a decade or more and tens of billions of dollars for the industry to develop commercially viable robo-taxi...

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Amazon's $1.2 billion deal to buy Zoox shows just how hard building a self-driving car still is —and why even more startups could become buyout targets (AMZN, UBER, WMT)

Amazon's $1.2 billion deal to buy Zoox shows just how hard building a self-driving car still is —and why even more startups could become buyout targets (AMZN, UBER, WMT)

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