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The company said Tuesday it had resumed autonomous operations in San Antonio after its longest-ever shutdown but is still not serving riders.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The recall affects 3,791 vehicles equipped with the Alphabet Inc.-owned company\u2019s fifth- and sixth-generation automated-driving system, according to documents posted to the NHTSA website. Waymo says its autonomous fleet has about 3,800 vehicles.<\/p>\n
The April 20 incident occurred when a robotaxi was overtaken by\u00a0Salado Creek floodwaters. Crews recovered the vehicle four days later along the\u00a0Greenway Trail system near Pletz County Park. Neither\u00a0Waymo nor city officials have said where the car was swept into the creek. It was found downstream from several low water crossings and bridges, including the Interstate 35 frontage at\u00a0Seguin Road, which is known to flood. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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It was the second San Antonio incident involving a\u00a0Waymo\u00a0and flooding in a two-week period. On April 4, another unoccupied Waymo had to be pulled from high water at McCullough Avenue and Contour Drive. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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High water can be seen across the underpass a Salado Creek and Interstate 35 on May 1.<\/p>\n
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Now at three weeks, the length of the service shutdown in San Antonio has eclipsed the company\u2019s previous interruptions for San Francisco power outages, Phoenix flash floods and Los Angeles protests.<\/p>\n
The fast-growing company has faced scrutiny over a variety of issues with its vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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In January, NHTSA opened an investigation after a Waymo vehicle struck a child near an elementary school \u200bin California, causing \u200bminor injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In \u2060March, the National Transportation Safety Board issued a preliminary report on its investigation into multiple instances of Waymo vehicles passing stopped San Antonio ISD school buses in\u00a0violation of state law. It found that on at least one occasion, a human remote assistance agent directed the\u00a0robotaxi to\u00a0pass a bus while students were loading.<\/p>\n
The Google spinoff began limited service in February in San Antonio, with dozens of its Waymo Driver system-equipped Jaguar I-Pace vehicles covering a 60-square-mile service area. It began Austin service in March 2025 and now operates about 250 vehicles in a 140-square-mile service area.<\/p>\n
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On March 31, San Antonio International Airport became the first airport in the state to get the service. It\u2019s being tested at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport but there is no timetable to begin service there.<\/p>\n
Beyond San Antonio and Austin, Waymo operates in nine other U.S. cities including Dallas and Houston. The others are Atlanta; Los Angeles; Miami; Nashville,\u00a0Tenn.; Orlando, Fla.; Phoenix; and San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Interstate 35 and Seguin Road is closed due to flooding after heavy rainfall on May 1. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[50816,28],"class_list":["post-639729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-austinlatest","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}