{"id":260786,"date":"2026-04-22T06:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260786\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:47:30","slug":"waymo-temporarily-suspends-san-antonio-operations-after-vehicle-swept-away-by-floodwaters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260786\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo temporarily suspends San Antonio operations after vehicle swept away by floodwaters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">SAN ANTONIO, Texas &#8211; Waymo says one of its autonomous vehicles was swept away by floodwaters in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/bexar-county\/san-antonio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Antonio<\/a> area Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox7austin.com\/news\/waymo-car-swept-away-san-antonio-operations-suspended\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">A Waymo spokesperson told FOX 7 Austin that an unoccupied Waymo vehicle had entered a flooded roadway and was swept away as a result.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The company has temporarily suspended its operations in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox7austin.com\/news\/waymo-car-swept-away-san-antonio-operations-suspended\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Waymo did not give a timeframe for when operations would be reinstated, but said that the company is continuing to monitor local conditions.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The company is also still trying to recover the lost vehicle as of Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report comes from Waymo<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artificial Intelligence<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/auto\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cars and Trucks<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO, Texas &#8211; Waymo says one of its autonomous vehicles was swept away by floodwaters in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3436,13870,242,223,82,84,83,3621,216,393,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-260786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-auto","10":"tag-lifestyle","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","14":"tag-san-antonio-news","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}