{"id":1007912,"date":"2026-05-13T10:32:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007912"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:47:03","slug":"waymo-recalls-3800-robotaxis-over-risk-of-entering-flooded-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/13\/waymo-recalls-3800-robotaxis-over-risk-of-entering-flooded-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis over risk of entering flooded roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waymo \u200bsaid on Tuesday it is recalling about 3,800 \u200brobotaxis in the United States after identifying a risk that vehicles could enter flooded roads with higher speed limits, raising safety \u200cconcerns.<\/p>\n<p>The Alphabet \u2060unit \u2060said the recall followed an incident on April 20 in \u200bwhich a Waymo vehicle drove into a flooded lane in San \u200bAntonio during extreme weather. Waymo said the vehicle was unoccupied and there were no injuries but the incident \u200bprompted the company to review similar \u2060scenarios involving \u200chigh speeds and impassable flooded roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waymo \u200bsaid on Tuesday it is recalling about 3,800 \u200brobotaxis in the United States after identifying a risk that vehicles could enter flooded roads with higher speed limits, raising safety \u200cconcerns. The Alphabet \u2060unit \u2060said the recall followed an incident on April 20 in \u200bwhich a Waymo vehicle drove into a flooded lane in San \u200bAntonio during extreme weather. Waymo said the vehicle was unoccupied and there were no injuries but the incident \u200bprompted the company to review similar \u2060scenarios involving \u200chigh speeds and impassable flooded roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}