Amazon buys self-driving car startup Zoox

Amazon has bought self-driving car company Zoox. The company aims to build autonomous vehicles that people will be able to order like taxis, and will now do the same under Amazon's direction, it indicated. Zoox was developing robotic vehicles without steering wheels, brakes, and accelerator pedals. The news was first reported on Thursday by The Information before being announced by Amazon. The purchase gives Amazon control of a 1000-person team, which had previously been designing prototype vehicles for travel in urban areas.