Amazon announced on Friday that it will take over Zoox, a self-driving startup founded in 2014 that has raised nearly $ 1 billion in funding and aims to develop autonomous driving technologies, including vehicles, to create a full-stack solution to provide for driving. Hail. According to Amazon's announcement, Zoox will continue to exist as an independent company. Current CEO Aicha Evans, CTO and co-founder Jesse Levinson remain in their roles. Your general corporate mission will remain the same, the release notes say. The value of the deal is $ 1.2 billion. According to the Financial Times. News reports have stated that Amazon considers Zoox a potential acquisition target and that the deal is about to end. Zoox has chosen one of the most expensive ways in the autonomous driving industry to build from the ground up a functional self-driving car along with the software and the AI end to provide its autonomous driving skills. Zoox has made some notable cost reductions over