I had seen the Zoox Bidirectional vehicles being tested near my house a while back. After that I opted to go see their more conventional vehicle test program. I found an article from Forbes Magazine that gave some hints where to find them:
"A block from San Francisco’s Embarcadero waterfront is a place you’re not supposed to notice. The little two-story building has no sign out front. Not even a street number affixed to its gray brick walls. Every window and door contains shaded glass, and a black, razor-wire-topped fence obscures its parking lot.
Welcome to the San Francisco testing site of Zoox, one of the most secretive startups in the booming world of autonomous driving"
So I did my usual paparazzi stake out.
For reasons I'm not sure of the black Toyota Highlanders had their logos removed and were painted matte black. Like somehow that would make a big car with a huge Lidar rack invisible.
The white Highlanders had the logos removed but had normal glossy paint.
The Zoox Lincoln MK Z's have no logos as well.
I'm not sure why the Lincolns are so popular with self driving car testing, but I've found a number of companies are using them.
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| Unidentified Autonomous Lincoln in NIO parking Lot |
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| Roadstar.ai Self Driving Lincoln Tested on the Streets of Silicon Valley |
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| Baidu Silicon Valley Autonomous Vehicles |
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