– Waymo Crash reports caused a federal investigation in May 2024 that has now been closed without the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration taking additional action.
The federal Waymo research was opened after crash reports and strange behavior of Waymo’s 5th generation Automated Driving Systems. Some crashes took place when the Waymo vehicles were the only vehicles involved.
In other cases, the automated systems ensured that the vehicles violate traffic laws.
The government rated a pattern of crashes in which the self-driving vehicles of Waymo stationary or semi-stationary objects such as gates, barriers and chains hit.
NHTSA found 367 total reports, with 109 of those reports with vehicle accidents, in which one crash caused an injury. Safety researchers learned how the vehicles apparently encountered problems when entering the building zones and when they try to respond to traffic control devices.
In a crash of May 2024, a non -occupied 5th generation Waymo Driver without a director became a auxiliary pole.
Waymo spent two safety groups during the study to update software to improve how the vehicles react to objects. The automated driving system was also updated to help the vehicles detect and avoid road objects that the vehicles had previously hit.
NHTSA described the barriers as “chains that are strung across the path of travel, gates and other gate -like roadway barriers.”
The probe is closed on the basis of the NHTSA research into the actions of the data and Waymo to improve the automated Rijsystems.
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