For a long time some countries, such as the United States, are testing autonomous cars, such as robotaxis. Some vehicles that cannot be found at the moment in Spain and that have various models, such as one manufactured by Tesla and presented at the end of 2024 or another of Amazon, specifically of its startup zoox, which has been transporting passengers since 2023. However, the latter has suffered an important setback, since The company has retired after suffering an accident in Las Vegas (Nevada, USA).
Zoox has announced the voluntary withdrawal of the software Of its robotaxis, in total of 270 units, after one of these autonomous vehicles suffered an accident last April in the city of Las Vegas. An accident in which One of these robotaxis, without occupants, collided with a tourismand in which there were no injuries, since only minor damage occurred in both cars.
According to a report sent on May 1 to the National Road Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the withdrawal and call to review the Amazon Robotaxis is related to a defect in the automated driving system of the vehicle that could make this imprecisely predict the movement of another car, which increases “the risk of accident”as they point out from CNBC.
Robotaxi de zooj. Zexx Murderer
“This withdrawal is voluntary. The report presented to the NHTSSA corresponds to an incident that involved a unemployed zoox robotaxi zoox and a passenger vehicle. The incident occurred when a passenger vehicle quickly approached the lane through which our robotaxi circulated. Pretending that the vehicle would advance, the Zoox robotaxi reduced the speed and turned to the right. Instead, the vehicle stopped, instead, the vehicle stop giving the passage to the Robotaxi Zoox and remaining in the side lane. The Robotaxi Zoox fierce abruptly, but the contact was inevitable“Amazon Startup said in its statement.
Zoox has assured that at the time of the incident they took “immediate measures that are part of our internal processes and vehicular operations”; And, after notifying the case to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, “all driver -free vehicles operations were suspended and internal security review and analysis began.” Finally, the incident was reported to the NHTSA as part of the process of the permanent general order. As the firm has pointed out, is resuming operations after deploying the update of software.
“After a rigorous analysis and tests, Zoox identified the root cause. We issued an update of software which was implemented in all Zoox vehicles. All zoox vehicles on the road today, including our robotaxi built on purpose and the test fleet, They have updated software“The company said. Amazon acquired Zoox in 2020 for more than 1,000 million dollars (about 879 million euros to change) and their robotaxis have been tested in the US cities of Las Vegas, Foster City and, since last month, in Los Angeles.
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