The National Highway Traffic Safety Assn., the automatic ride-hailing service that launched its service in Los Angeles, is recalling more than 1, 200 cars due to a program fault. said Wednesday.
The Mountain View, California-based organization filed with the NHTSA in after a series of small crashes with walls, bars, and other obstructions in the street that did not result in any injuries. 1, 212 autonomous vehicles that use Waymo’s fifth-generation automated driving applications are subject to the remember.
According to the recall see, Waymo released a software upgrade to fix the problem, and that release has already been implemented in all affected vehicles.
The business runs more than 1,500 lorries in Austin, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Any vehicles that are already on the road are not affected by the remember, according to Waymo spokesperson Ethan Teicher.
Following , some issues , Tesla’s autonomous systems, and a 2023 event in which a motorist was severely injured by a , Cruise car, self-driving automobiles have come under increased attention.
In May of this year, the NHTSA opened an investigation into Waymo following information of 22 incidents involving the fifth-generation program. A skilled drivers may be expected to avoid several occurrences under investigation, according to the company. The case is still pending.
Waymo recalled 444 lorries in February 2024 following two small incidents in Arizona. Even though Waymo vehicle situations garner media attention, the cars are safer than human drivers, according to information collected by Swiss Re, a car manufacturer.
According to data collected by Waymo, their driverless vehicles had 62 % fewer police-reported crashes than traditional vehicles traveling the same distance, 78 % fewer injuries-causing crashes, and 81 % fewer airbag deployment crashes. To work independently, Waymo automobiles rely on cameras, sensors, and a particular kind of laser detector called lidar.
” Waymo offers more than 250, 000 paid visits every year in some of the most tough driving conditions in the U.S.,” Teicher said. Our track record of reducing wounds over tens of millions of miles driven by fully autonomous systems demonstrates this.
Waymo, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, launched its first intelligent aircraft in 2015 with the help of Google’s parent company. It launched its Waymo One driverless ride-hailing support in 2020, and it intends to expand to Atlanta, Miami, and Washington, D.C., starting in 2020.
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