Waymo Resumes San Antonio Service Five Months After Flood Recall

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    "excerpt": "Waymo has resumed paid robotaxi rides in San Antonio, five months after one of its unoccupied vehicles drove into a flooded road and was swept into Salado Creek, prompting the company’s longest known pause in any city and a software recall covering its entire US fleet. Service now covers approximately the same 60-square-mile area as before, including downtown and San Antonio International Airport, with a fleet described as dozens of vehicles and flood-risk zones now carved out of the map. Only riders who had access before the pause can hail a car. New users will be admitted from the waitlist later this year. Waymo launched in San Antonio in late February with invitation-only access and added airport trips in the spring. San Antonio police records later reviewed by the Express-News show the cars needed help from humans frequently from the start, but the stoppage came from water. About two weeks before the main incident, an unoccupied vehicle became stranded in high water near McCullough Avenue and Contour Drive. On the night of April 20, during a severe storm, a second unoccupied vehicle entered a flooded section of roadway. It was pulled into the creek and recovered days later. No one was hurt in either incident. Waymo paused passenger service and kept vehicles testing without riders. By April 29 the stoppage was already the longest known in the company’s history, longer than...",
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