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WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab self-driving unit Waymo is recalling nearly 3,900 robotaxis in the U.S. because a software issue could cause the ​vehicles to enter a closed freeway construction zone and continue driving.

It ‌is the second recall by Waymo in just over a month.

The latest recall, filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), stems from more than a dozen incidents since early April in California and ​Arizona in which Waymo autonomous vehicles (AVs) did not recognise a

Waymo is recalling 3,791 vehicles after one of the company's driverless cars was washed away during flash flooding in San Antonio last month.

Waymo filed to recall vehicles installed with its fifth and sixth generation automated driving system on May 6 with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The California-based company started pulling vehicles off the road on April 24.

"On higher speed roadways, the Waymo [autonomous vehicle] may slow but not stop in response to detecting a potentially untraversable flooded lan

Google’s earthquake warning system failed to get to many Turkish residents before February’s deadly tremors, a BBC Newsnight investigation has found.

Turkey was shaken by two powerful earthquakes, a magnitude 7.8 and 7.5, on Feb. 6 that which claimed the lives of more than 50,000 people in southern and southeastern Turkey.

Google says its alert system can give users up to a minute’s notice on their phones before an earthquake hits.

It says its alert was sent to millions before the first, biggest quake.

However, the BBC visited three cities in the earthquake zone, speaking to hundreds of pe

A pedestrian-injury crash involving a Hello Inc. robotaxi in the central city of Zhuzhou has renewed scrutiny of China's rapid push into commercial autonomous driving, raising fresh questions about how liability will be assigned when accidents occur.

Footage circulating online on December 6 showed a vehicle marked "Hello Autonomous Driving" stopped at a crosswalk while bystanders and police lifted the car to free a person trapped underneath. Two injured people were taken to a local hospital, according to local media reports. Local police have yet to issue a fault determination, and Hello has

Amazon-owned Zoox issued a recall Tuesday over concerns its autonomous driving system caused vehicles to cross over the center lane line near intersections or block crosswalks. The voluntary recall of its software affected 332 vehicles, according to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

While there have not been any collisions associated with the issue, Zoox noted in the NHTSA filing that it could increase the risk of a crash. The company provides free rides to the public in its [driverl