Waymo 1200 robotics remember after low -speed collision with gates and chains

Waymo released a program on 1,200 self -driving vehicles after some robots participated in simple collisions with gates, chains and other gate -like things.

The update of the program, which was Reuters mentioned for the first timeI was held late last year, according to the documents submitted to the National Traffic Safety Administration. The company owned by the alphabet in the document said that the Waymo Safety Council decided to make a summons for this specific version of the software software to “fulfill the obligations of relevant regulatory reports.”

NHTSA opened a preliminary assessment of the Waymo automatic driving system last May after learning seven incidents in which robotics collided with “fixed and similar things like gates and chains” between December 2022 and April 2024. None of this injury, according to NHTSA.

In November 2024, Waymo has updated a program to her fleet from Robotaxis, which reached 1200 at the time. The program’s update significantly reduced the possibility of these types of events, according to the documents submitted to NHTSA. Today, Waymo has 1500 commercial robots at Austin, Los Angeles, Phenix and San Francisco.

Program updates were under progress at a time when the NHTSA examination began, according to the documents. The company conducted ongoing discussions with NHTSA regarding the evaluation of the relative risks of self -government vehicles, and the agency provided information related to 9 additional collisions with these types of playing, which occurred between February 2024 and December 2024.

Waymo released at least two of the other summons. Company He released the program In June 2024 to Jaguar I-Pace, one of them collided with a phone pole. Waymo also Remember the previous programs In February 2024, after two robots crashed into the small truck that was pulled with a cloud truck.