Waymos In Atlanta And San Antonio Keep Driving Into Flooded Roads

The company has suspended operations in a second city.

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Autonomous cars are getting more capable all the time, but they remain a bit too willing to fight mother nature and lose. Case in point: Waymo has halted its robotaxi service in a second US city in the past fortnight due to issues with heavy rain and flooding.

First reported by TechCrunch, the company has paused its operations in Atlanta after one of its self-driving vehicles was seen driving through a heavily flooded street, where it eventually got stuck for around an hour. This comes after Waymo also temporarily suspendedits San Antonio service last week and issued a voluntary recall for nearly 4,000 robotaxis. At the time, the company said it was preparing an OTA software patch that would fix an apparent inability to determine when an area is too flooded to drive through safely. This was...

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