Waymo released a software reminder in 1,200 self-driving vehicles as some of its robotaxis were included in small collisions with gates, chains and other objects of the road.
Software update, which was first reported by Reuters, was conducted at the end of last year, according to documents submitted to the National Traffic Safety Administration on the highway. The alphabet -owned company said in the document that the Waymo Security Board decided to develop a withdrawal in that specific version of the driverless software to “meet the relevant regulatory reporting obligations”.
NHTSA opened a preliminary assessment in the automated Waymo Maji leadership system after learning seven incidents in which the robotaxis collided with “stationary and semi-station objects such as the gates and chains” between December 2022 and April 2024. None of these resulted in damage, according to NHTSA.
In November 2024, Waymo rolls a software update on his Roboxis fleet, which numbered 1,200 at the time. Software update significantly reduced the possibility of these types of events, according to the documents presented at NHTSA. Today, Waymo has 1,500 trading robotaxis in Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco.
The software updates were developing at the time the NHTSA examination began, according to the documents. The company had ongoing discussions with NHTSA regarding comparative risk assessment for autonomous vehicles and provided the Agency information about 9 additional clashes with these types of obstacles, which occurred between February 2024 and December 2024.
Waymo has released at least two more memories. The company issued a software reminder in June 2024 in its Jaguar I-Pace robotax after one of them collided with a telephone pole. Waymo also recalled the previous software in February 2024 after two of his robots crashed into the same truck that was being pulled out of an attractive truck.
