News Summary

• The expansion announced Tuesday will be confined to a few major San Francisco neighborhoods.
• Zoox still doesn’t charge people to ride in its robotaxis, something Waymo has been doing since its debut in Phoenix five years ago.
• The free rides are the next major milestone before charging fares like Waymo and traditional ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft.
• The San Francisco launch comes less than three months after the Amazon-owned robotaxi company launched its first ride-Hailing service along the Las Vegas strip.