Great news: you can now ride a Zoox robotaxi if you’re in San Francisco. Yes, you heard me right! Zoox, I said.

I’m sure I don’t need to remind you that in 2020, Amazon bought an Australia-founded robotaxi company called Zoox for $1.2 billion , and that not long after that acquisition, it rolled out a prototype that looks like a Pokémon on wheels.

On Tuesday, Zoox debuted a program called “Zoox Explorers” that invites users in San Francisco to download the Zoox app, and get on the waitlist to potentially take a free ride in one of these—I guess you could call it a “buggy,” since Zoox doesn’t want us to call it a car . Using the app could already get you a free ride starting in September, but only if you were going up or down the Las Vegas Strip .

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