Zoox smoke-detection recall lands amid NHTSA crackdown

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    "title": "Zoox smoke-detection recall lands amid NHTSA crackdown - Automotive World",
    "excerpt": "Zoox's smoke-detection recall lands mere days after NHTSA demanded that all US AV firms fix their emergency-response failures. By Stewart Burnett Zoox has recalled its entire fleet of 105 robotaxis after one of its driverless vehicles drove into an active fire scene in Las Vegas on 20 June, unable to detect the heavy smoke obscuring the area. The latest in a string of incidents involving self-driving cars disrupting first responder operations, the incident comes ahead of an end-July deadline by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to address such issues. The Zoox fire scene incident was a one-off for the Amazon-owned self-driving firm, and comes down to sensors failing to detect smoke adequately. Eventually, the vehicle did, braking hard while trying to steer away, before coming to a stop inside the emergency scene. It subsequently had to be reversed out under remote teleguidance before firefighters could place traffic cones to close off two of the three lanes. Zoox notified NHTSA of the incident on 25 June, as required under the Automated Vehicle Exemption Program that governs its unoccupied, wheel-less vehicles, then spent roughly two weeks investigating the root cause before issuing an over-the-air software update to improve smoke and low-visibility detection. The company’s own filing characterised it as “the only event of this kind that Zoox has...",
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