Elon Musk calls Jeff Bezos a ‘copy cat’ after Amazon buys self-driving taxi company

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently took to Twitter and called Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos a ‘copy cat’ after e-commerce giant reportedly acquired self-driving-taxi company Zoox for $1.2 billion. Earlier this month, Amazon said that it is buying self-driving techlogy company Zoox, which is reportedly developing an automous vehicle for a ride-hailing service that people would request on ir phones. As  new deal will put Amazon at a more levered playing field with Tesla in self-driving arena, Musk took to Twitter to take a jibe at Bezos. 

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While  deal could drive e-commerce company into an entirely new business of transporting people from one place to ar, this is t first time that Musk has taken a dig at Bezos. Earlier this month, Tesla CEO slammed Blue Origin and Bezos. Musk in a tweet said that it is time to break up e-commerce giant and end its mopoly. 

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Zoox takes a jibe at Tesla 

According to reports, Tesla and Zoox have also tred jabs before. While Musk said that by mid-2020 his company’s self-driving cars would be fully operational without human interaction, Zoox co-founder and Chief Techlogy Officer Jesse Levinson reportedly said that re was chance of that happening. While speaking to an international media outlet, Levinson said that Tesla doesn't have eugh sensors or computers to go driverless, given any remotely kwn techlogy that exists that humans have created. 

While Levinson reportedly called Tesla’s cars ‘great’, he also said that company’s autopilot feature, even in its full-self driving’ options, is t yet fully automous. Levinson furr ded that Tesla’s system still requires human interaction. Meanwhile, Zoox has reportedly taken a hit from ecomic fallout of dely COVID-19 pandemic. As per reports, company laid off nearly 120 employees in April and is struggling to raise capital. 

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