Bay Area startup Zoox, unveiled its design for a driverless taxi at CES 2023. Zoox is one of the few EV companies headed by a woman (Aicha Evans, Zoox CEO); it is an independent subsidiary under Amazon.com that is designing autonomous robots to deliver packages in the future. The futuristic Zoox taxi can operate for about 16 hours on a single charge. It uses AI, LIDAR, an envelop airbag for carriage seating which provides safety for all four seats. Zoox was founded in 2014 by Jesse Levinson who got his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.