Waymo recalls 1,200 self-driving cars prone to hitting road barriers

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Waymo, the ride-hailing work owned by Google-parent Alphabet, has recalled 1,212 of its driverless cars implicit faulty bundle that causes them to clang into chains, gates and different roadway barriers.

"A conveyance that crashes into chains, gates oregon different gate-like roadway barriers increases the hazard of injury," the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states successful a callback announcement posted Monday.

The callback affects Waymo vehicles equipped with its fifth-generation automated driving strategy (ADS) and follows an probe opened a twelvemonth agone by NHTSA that cited 16 reports of "collisions with stationary and semi-stationary objects specified arsenic gates and chains" betwixt December 2022 and 2024. 

No injuries arsenic a effect of the faulty bundle were reported.

As a remedy, Waymo released bundle successful November 2024 that "significantly reduced the likelihood of collisions with chains, gates, and different gate-like roadway barriers," the callback states. All affected vehicles are owned by the driverless taxi company, which says it deployed the caller bundle crossed its full fleet by December 26, 2024.

Recently featured on CBS Sunday Morning, Waymo offers afloat autonomous rides successful respective large cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix and Austin, Texas. The institution plans to grow to a twelve much cities, CBS News Boston recently reported.

NHTSA's fig for the callback is 25E-034.

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