<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 12:20 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg5633360123518937667"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_5633360123518937667WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>There are plenty of robotaxis being tested, but this one in Foster City caught my attention because it is symmetrical front and back.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span><span style="background-color:transparent">I found out the company is Zoox.  Jeff Bezos owns them now. </span></i></font></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>From the picture<span class="gmail_default" style=""> I can't help but wonder how safe they would be. They look pretty flimsy, what happens to the passengers if they get into a collision? </span> </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>To my surprise I <span class="gmail_default" style="">just </span>discovered that they do have airbags</b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><b style="">, they inflate from the roof, so maybe they're OK.</b> </span></font></div><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg5633360123518937667"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_5633360123518937667WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>My prediction: Amazon will beat Waymo eventually.</i></font></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Yeah I'd bet on Amazon too, I'd say they have a 65% chance of driving Waymo into bankruptcy or forcing them to merge with Amazon because Amazon has very deep pockets, but Waymo does not.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><b>John K Clark</b></span><br></font><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg5633360123518937667"><br>
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