{"id":271886,"date":"2026-06-19T12:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/271886\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:48:46","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-waymo-recalls-nearly-3900-robotaxis-over-construction-zone-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/271886\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Waymo Recalls Nearly 3900 Robotaxis Over Construction Zone Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Waymo is recalling 3,871 of its fifth-generation automated driving systems in the United States after identifying a software issue that could allow vehicles to enter closed freeway construction zones.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the recall notice, the software may fail to recognize certain construction-related road closures, potentially allowing a self-driving vehicle to continue traveling through an active work zone at highway speeds.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Waymo said it is developing a software fix to address the issue. In the meantime, the company has restricted freeway operations for affected vehicles as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The planned update will improve the system&#8217;s ability to detect and avoid construction zones. The software upgrade will be provided at no cost.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No additional details about crashes or injuries related to the issue were included in the recall summary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waymo is recalling 3,871 of its fifth-generation automated driving systems in the United States after identifying a software&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-271886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}