reported<\/a> by Bloomberg News.<\/p>\nA Waymo spokesperson said the corporate also paused service in Dallas and Houston out of an abundance of caution for the forecasted severe weather. <\/p>\n
Waymo admitted that it hadn\u2019t finished developing a \u201cfinal treatment\u201d for avoiding flooded areas when it issued its software recall last week. As a substitute, the corporate said that it shipped an update to its fleet that placed \u201crestrictions at times and in locations where there’s an elevated risk of encountering a flooded, higher-speed roadway,\u201d based on documents released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).<\/p>\n
But even those precautions apparently weren’t enough to stop the Waymo robotaxi from entering a flooded intersection in Atlanta. Waymo told TechCrunch on Thursday that the storm in Atlanta produced a lot rainfall that flooding was happening before the National Weather Service had issued a flash flood warning, watch, or advisory. The corporate said those alerts are part of a bigger set of signals it relies on to organize the vehicles for poor weather.<\/p>\n
\u201cNHTSA is aware of this incident, is in communication with Waymo, and can take appropriate motion if needed,\u201d a spokesperson for the protection regulator told TechCrunch regarding the robotaxi that got stuck in Atlanta. <\/p>\n
This isn’t the primary time Waymo has struggled to quickly stamp out problematic behavior with its robotaxis. When people began to notice Waymo robotaxis illegally passing stopped school buses last 12 months, the corporate shipped a fix that was speculated to address the difficulty \u2014 just for its fleet to proceed making illegal maneuvers around school buses. <\/p>\n
Waymo\u2019s behavior around school buses is at the middle of one in every of two sets of energetic investigations into the corporate. <\/p>\n
Each the NHTSA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are looking into this problem. Waymo has already produced a batch of documents for the NHTSA, all of which were redacted to the general public. On May 15, the NHTSA sent a second document request to Waymo because the corporate\u2019s initial response \u201cnecessitates that [NHTSA] receive further data and knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n
The opposite set of investigations from the NHTSA and NTSB involve a January 23 incident where a Waymo robotaxi crashed into a baby in Santa Monica, California. Waymo has said that its robotaxi braked to around six miles per hour before it struck that child and that she suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n
This story has been updated with more details about how Waymo uses National Weather Service alerts<\/em>, and to incorporate latest service pauses in Houston and Dallas.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\nWhenever you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn\u2019t affect our editorial independence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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