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Riding in a Zoox robotaxi at CES 2025: Everything that went right and wrong


A construction zone. A car crash. A double parked truck. A motorcycle cop with its red-white-and blues deployed.  My one-hour trip along the Las Vegas

Image credits: Kirsten KorosecZoox co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson, who joined me on the longer 16-mile ride, aims to make it as commonplace as getting into an Uber or Lyft, only better. Levinson told me that hundreds of small changes have been made from the previous generation, including to the suspension, brakes, electronic drive units, and more powerful and efficient computers. Kirsten Korosec is a reporter and editor who has covered the future of transportation from EVs and autonomous vehicles to urban air mobility and in-car tech for more than a decade.

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