{"id":304848,"date":"2026-05-22T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/304848\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:13:08","slug":"waymo-halts-service-across-texas-other-states-amid-weather-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/304848\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo halts service across Texas, other states amid weather concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/waymo.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Waymo<\/a> has expanded its service stoppage across Texas, Georgia and Tennessee amid severe storm threats, the company said Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ride-hailing provider\u2019s widening shutdown comes a month after floodwaters swept away one of its self-driving vehicles in San Antonio. Service has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/news\/article\/waymo-robotaxi-swept-away-san-antonio-flood-22217684.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">halted in San Antonio<\/a> since the April 20 incident that occurred on an\u00a0Interstate 35 frontage road near Salado Creek on the city\u2019s east side.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the company said it\u2019s pausing service in its other Texas markets\u00a0\u2014 includes Austin, Dallas and Houston\u00a0\u2014 as well as Atlanta and Nashville, because of impending severe weather. The latest round of closures follow an incident earlier this week where a Waymo had to be pulled from high waters in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>A Waymo spokesman said the company makes \u201cproactive decisions including temporarily pausing aspects of our service.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It added that it paused service to make improvements to its systems, but didn\u2019t say when it would begin serving riders again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know riders count on us to get around, and we appreciate their patience as we work to get them where they\u2019re going safely and reliably,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waymo has expanded its service stoppage across Texas, Georgia and Tennessee amid severe storm threats, the company said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[933,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-304848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-austinlatest","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304848","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=304848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}