Waymo has restarted its robotaxi service in San Antonio, Texas, 5 months after one in every of its automobiles was swept away throughout a flash flood.
A number of Waymo robotaxis received caught through the heavy flooding in April. The automobiles slowed however didn’t cease as they approached waterlogged streets. Waymo in the end issued a recall in Might, and the corporate restricted its robotaxis from driving in areas with elevated danger of flooding.
Waymo briefly paused operations across the identical time in different cities in Texas however has since resumed these companies. The corporate is now providing paid rides in 15 U.S. cities.
The resumed service in San Antonio will contain dozens of automobiles masking a 60-mile space that features downtown and the San Antonio Worldwide Airport, in accordance with the San Antonio Categorical-Information, which was first to report on Waymo beginning again up. Waymo advised the paper that it has made adjustments to its software program that may assist the robotaxis higher detect and keep away from standing water sooner or later.