Nearly every autonomous driving developer envisions transporting food or other goods in its deployment plans. Despite being a subsidiary of Amazon, Zoox has only one thought: carrying passengers.
"We're really focused on moving people around cities," Zoox co-founder Jesse Levinson told Automotive News. Package delivery is "not in the immediate roadmap," he said.
While they establish ride-hailing plans, competitors such as Cruise, Argo AI and Waymo all have deals to deliver groceries and other goods for Walmart. Motional will do food delivery for Uber Eats.
Zoox's technology would work for automated delivery, but Levinson said ride-hailing offers a faster return on investment.
"People pay more to move themselves around cities than to move packages," he said.