Anonymousabout 1 hour ago
Waymo suspended robotaxi service across five U.S. cities in May 2026 after multiple incidents in which its autonomous vehicles drove into flooded roads, including one that was swept into a San Antonio creek. The company's fleet-wide recall of 3,791 vehicles and a subsequent software patch both failed to prevent further incidents, exposing a structural limitation in autonomous vehicle sensor technology and a gap in federal safety regulations that do not specifically require AVs to detect and avoid floodwater.