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Tesla's robo taxi service are self-driving cars with a distinct gilded look.

At least three autonomous vehicle companies are operating in Houston, Waymo, Amazon's Zoox, and Tesla's Robotaxi.

Zoox is still testing, but riders can hail a Waymo or Robotaxi in much of Houston today.

I'm Michael Adkisson, News887.

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Tesla's robo-taxi service are self-driving cars with a distinct gilded look.

At least three autonomous vehicle companies are operating in Houston, Waymo, Amazon's Zoox, and Tesla's robo-taxi.

Zoox is still testing, but riders can hail a Waymo or robo-taxi in much of Houston today.

I'm Michael Adkisson, News 88.7.

One of Houston's own has been announced as the Grand Marshal for the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

And now that makes at least three autonomous vehicle companies operating in the Houston area.

So you have Tesla's Robotaxis, Waymo, and Amazon's Zoox, the latter of which is still testing and cannot be held for rides by the public.

texas excuse me tesla's robo taxis operate in austin and dallas as well as houston they have plans to serve san antonio in the future rides can be hailed on the robo taxi app and prices are estimated ahead ahead of time just like any other ride hailing service like an uber or lyft so what are your thoughts on this have you tried the self-driving ride share call or text us 713-440-8870 you getting in this contraption for a ride ernie what are you doing i

I almost took a Waymo on Saturday night.

Just look at those car companies.

the the the uh like the ride share companies it started out with uber then all these people all of a sudden started having these much great way to make some extra income and there was people involved and they're doing their thing and they're using their own car and they can get out there and they can make some cash even if they already have another job by working extra people working extra hard because it's hard to get by and then waymos were introduced in robo taxis and whatever the other cyber cab and Like this, there's black ones, there's yellow ones, there's white ones, and Zoox is coming.

And so like now, the billionaires have found a way to just keep on getting more.

Like, hey, we're giving away too much money to these people that are driving.

I don't know how many times I've been here by now, but this year was very energizing, and I think one reason is that I was able to plan the whole week really well with my pal and Claude, the one thing I didn't manage was a ride in one of the driverless taxis that now run on the streets of Vegas.

I'd have loved to try it, but I wasn't allowed to download the Zoox app because you need to be American to use it.

But anyway, in a few hours, I'll be on my way home, and by the time you hear this, I'll be off for a week, because it's the autumn school holiday in Sweden, and I will be spending some time in the sun in Spain.

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Let's see.

So this is Zoox.

It's not a car.

It's a driverless robo taxi designed around you.

You're spending millions of dollars on equipment to develop this out.

So how can you ensure you're going to get that back? If you can go to a Waymo or a Zoox and say, hey, if 20% of your fleet is to charge here, we'll give you a good rate.

And then you can judge a baseline rate off of that and ultimately help to But there's only so many of those opportunities available and people want to now capture that as the way to get financing or some sort of underwriting structure around it.

So it's all shaking out differently.

You're spending millions of dollars on equipment to develop this out.

So how can you ensure you're going to get that back? If you can go to a Waymo or a Zoox and say, hey, if 20% of your fleet is to charge here, we'll give you a good rate.

And then you can judge a baseline rate off of that and ultimately help to But there's only so many of those opportunities available and people want to now capture that as the way to get financing or some sort of underwriting structure around it.

So it's all shaking out differently.