{"id":1015546,"date":"2026-06-19T08:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015546"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:17:51","slug":"waymo-recalls-nearly-4000-robotaxis-after-construction-zone-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/19\/waymo-recalls-nearly-4000-robotaxis-after-construction-zone-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis after construction zone incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waymo, the subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet and US robotaxi leader, has recalled nearly 4,000 of its driverless cars after several incidents in which its robotaxis entered closed-off highway construction zones. <\/p>\n<p>The recall, filed Wednesday with the federal road safety agency (NHTSA), covers 3,871 vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>According to the filing, reviewed by AFP, &#8220;under certain circumstances, the autonomous vehicle may enter and drive at speed in freeway construction zones due to inappropriately prioritizing the avoidance of other freeway hazards and\/or failing to recognize the construction zone,&#8221; increasing the risk of a crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waymo, the subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet and US robotaxi leader, has recalled nearly 4,000 of its driverless cars after several incidents in which its robotaxis entered closed-off highway construction zones. The recall, filed Wednesday with the federal road safety agency (NHTSA), covers 3,871 vehicles. According to the filing, reviewed by AFP, &#8220;under certain circumstances, the autonomous vehicle may enter and drive at speed in freeway construction zones due to inappropriately prioritizing the avoidance of other freeway hazards and\/or failing to recognize the construction zone,&#8221; increasing the risk of a crash.<\/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-1015546","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\/1015546","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=1015546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015572,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015546\/revisions\/1015572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}