Waymo has temporarily halted all freeway rides for its robotaxi service, including airport trips, as it works to fix how its vehicles handle construction zones and hazardous road conditions.
The pause affects freeway segments in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Miami, where the Alphabet owned company had recently expanded highway service on top of its existing city street operations. Local trips on surface streets will continue, but riders can no longer use Waymo for freeway journeys while the software is updated.
Waymo said it is integrating recent technical learnings to improve responses around lane closures, cones and flooding, and expects to resume freeway routes once upgrades are complete. The move follows a recall of about 3,800 robotaxis earlier this month after some vehicles drove into flooded roadways and a separate incident in Atlanta where a driverless car became stranded in high water, prompting a pause in operations there as well.
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