An autonomous Zoox Robotaxi in San Francisco, California, USA, on Wednesday, December 4, 2024.
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AmazonThe Zoox Robotaxi unit issued a voluntary retreat from its software for the second time in a month after a recent accident in San Francisco.
On May 8, a unemployed Zoox Robotaxi was turning at low speed when it was beaten by an electric scooter rider after stopping to give in an intersection. The person in the Scooter rejected medical attention after suffering minor injuries as a result of the collision, Zox said.
“The Zoox vehicle was arrested at the time of contact,” the company said in a blog post. “The E-Scooterist fell to the ground directly next to the vehicle. The robotaxi began to move and stopped after completing the turn, but made no more contact with the e-coterist.”
Zoox said he presented a voluntary software withdrawal report to the National Road Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday.
A Zoox spokesman said the notice should be published on the NHTSA website earlier next week. The removal of memory affected 270 vehicles, said the spokesman.
The NHTSSA said in a statement that he had received the retirement notice and that the agency “advises road users to be cautious in the neighborhood of vehicles because drivers can incorrectly predict the travel route of a cyclist or cyclist or stop unexpected.”
If an autonomous vehicle continues to move after contact with any vulnerable user of the road, runs the risk of causing damage or more damage. In the AV industry, General Motors-Cruis Backed left the Robotaxi business after a collision in which one of his vehicles injured a pedestrian who had been beaten by a car driven by humans and was then shot by the AV cruise.
The May of Zoox incident occurs approximately two weeks after the company announced a separate voluntary software withdrawal after a recent Las Vegas accident. In that incident, a unemployed Zoox Robotaxi collided with a passenger vehicle, which resulted in minor damage in both vehicles.
The company issued a software withdrawal for 270 of its robotaxis to address a defect with its automated driving system that could make it inaccurately predict the movement of another car, increasing the “risk of an accident.”
Amazon acquired Zoox in 2020 for more than $ 1 billion, announcing at that time that the agreement would help bring the “vision of the autonomous technology company for the autonomous trip to reality.”
While Zoox is at a test and development stage with its AV on public roads in the United States, Alphabet Waymo is already operating commercial services without driver in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, and is increasing in Atlanta.
Tesla It is promising that he will launch his Robotaxis of delay in Austin next month, and, if everything goes well, he plans to expand after that to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Antonio, Texas.
– Lora Kolodny of CNBC contributed to this report.
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