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Two Waymo robotaxis crash into the same truck within minutes, prompting recall

S3 · 12/11
2023 · Waymo (Alphabet) · Phoenix, AZ, USA

Record

CompanyWaymo (Alphabet)
Categoryother
Typemalfunction
Date12/11
2023
Time of daynot documented
LocationPhoenix, AZ, USA
SeverityS3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
Scale-
Confidencemedium
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceSTERN.de

What happened

Two Waymo autonomous vehicles separately collided with the same parked/tow truck within minutes of each other in the Phoenix area due to a software misjudgment of the truck's dimensions; Waymo issued a fleet-wide software recall in response.

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