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​Amazon-owned robotaxi startup Zoox is set to start testing self-driving cars on the streets of Seattle.

Zoox's cofounder and Chief Technology Officer Jesse Levinson told Bloomberg there were two reasons Zoox had picked Seattle as its new testing ground. The first was so it could attract local engineering talent — Seattle was a "hot bed of computer scientists," he said.

The second was Seattle's famously bad weather. In the past, some self-driving systems have been shown to be disrupted by rain and snow so Seattle is a great place to put them to the test.