Waymo recalls robotaxis for driving on flooded roads

A Waymo drives crossed Congress Avenue connected 8th Street successful beforehand of the Capitol Building arsenic rainfall arrives successful the Austin country connected Friday, Jan. 23, 2025 up of anticipated drops successful somesthesia and freezing rainfall implicit the weekend. (Sara Diggins/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images) | Image: Getty

Waymo is recalling its autonomous driving bundle that allowed its vehicles to thrust connected flooded roads. The recall affects 3,791 vehicles that run utilizing Waymo's 5th and sixth procreation systems.

In documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Alphabet-owned institution said that an unoccupied Waymo robotaxi "encountered an untraversable flooded conception of a roadway that has a 40 mph velocity limit." Despite detecting the flooded road, the conveyance "proceeded astatine reduced speed." Waymo said it was presently moving connected a remedy. In the interim, the institution has updated its vehicles to "increase weather-related cons …

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