Amazon’s Zoox Driverless Car Gets Clearance From US Regulator

The Trump administration has cleared the way for Zoox, the autonomous-vehicle subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., to demonstrate self-driving cars that lack traditional driving controls like steering wheels.

US auto safety regulators granted an exemption to federal vehicle safety standards for purpose-built driverless cars made by Zoox, the Transportation Department said in a statement on Wednesday. The decision follows a lengthy period of back-and-forth between the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the self-driving car developer, which announced its driverless car designed without steering wheels or brake pedals in 2022.