
New York City has all the right traits to make it ideal terrain for robotaxis like those being developed by Amazon-owned Zoox. Few people in the Big Apple own cars, and residents rely on public transit and ride-share apps like Uber and Lyft.
“It is the Holy Grail for the business,” Zoox CEO Aicha Evans said on stage at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Park City, Utah, on Tuesday. “But it’s not easy.”