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On January 19, 2025, the first fatal accident involving a Waymo occurred in San Francisco, when a Tesla traveling at 98 mph (158 km/h) struck multiple vehicles, including an unoccupied Waymo car. The crash resulted in the death of 27-year-old Mikhael Romanenko and his dog, with seven others injured.
The passenger the Waymo car was supposed to pick up told NBC affiliate 12News last month that she was visiting Phoenix and wanted to try out the service. She said she heard the sound of the crash ...
A crowd vandalized and set fire to a Waymo self-driving car using a firework in San Francisco on Saturday, the Alphabet-owned company and authorities said, marking the most destructive attack so ...
A Waymo robotaxi was destroyed by humans last night. In San Francisco’s Chinatown, amid Lunar New Year celebrations, a crowd surrounded the autonomous vehicle, broke its windows, and set off ...
The U.S. government's highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo's self-driving vehicles. The National Highway ...
The car's human safety backup driver, Rafaela Vasquez, [2] did not intervene in time to prevent the collision. [18] Vehicle telemetry obtained after the crash showed that the human operator responded by moving the steering wheel less than a second before impact, and she engaged the brakes less than a second after impact. [13]
Waymo, a driverless car company that tested in Austin, is being investigated by NHTSA following a number of crashes.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. auto safety regulators said on Tuesday they have opened an investigation into the performance of Alphabet's Waymo self-driving vehicles after reports of its robotaxis ...