Waymo restarts San Antonio service five months after flooding troubles

Waymo has restarted its robotaxi work successful San Antonio, Texas, 5 months aft 1 of its vehicles was swept distant during a flash flood.

Multiple Waymo robotaxis got stuck during the dense flooding successful April. The vehicles slowed but did not halt arsenic they approached water-logged streets. Waymo yet issued a callback successful May, and the institution restricted its robotaxis from driving successful areas with elevated hazard of flooding.

Waymo concisely paused operations astir the aforesaid clip successful different cities successful Texas, but has since resumed those services. The institution is present offering paid rides successful 15 U.S. cities.

The resumed work successful San Antonio volition impact dozens of vehicles covering a 60-mile country that includes downtown and the San Antonio International Airport, according to the San Antonio Express-News, which was archetypal to study connected Waymo starting backmost up. Waymo told the insubstantial that it has made changes to its bundle that volition assistance the robotaxis amended observe and debar lasting h2o successful the future.