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Anonymousabout 2 hours ago

Waymo issued a voluntary recall of 3,791 robotaxis after an unoccupied vehicle drove into floodwaters on a San Antonio highway on April 20, 2026, and was swept into Salado Creek. The incident — the largest flooding-related failure in commercial autonomous vehicle history — exposed a software flaw in Waymo's fifth- and sixth-generation driving systems that caused vehicles to decelerate but not stop when encountering flooded roads, and has reignited debate over whether federal safety rules designed for human-driven cars can adequately govern driverless fleets.