<p style="text-align:start;" size="0" _root="undefined" __ownerid="undefined" __hash="undefined" __altered="false"><span style="color:#000000">Silicon Valley-based autonomous driving company Zoox is in competition with heavily funded rivals including Alphabet’s Waymo, General Motors-backed Cruise and Argo AI, supported by Ford and Volkswagen, to be among the first autonomous tech companies to prove that on-demand robotic vehicles can succeed and become a highly profitable business. </span></p>