Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis after glitch allowed some vehicles to 'drive into standing water'

"Remain calm, I have trained for this!"

The machine knows!

The GPS says to turn right!

[Perry Bible Fellowship called this years ago.](https://pbfcomics.com/comics/cars/)

That's technically standing water so............

That is a rather unfortunate glitch.

They knew what happens to lithium in water...

“What is my purpose?” “You drive around tiktokers and drunk people.” “Oh my god.”

You know we’re living in the future when self-driving cars can also become self-harming cars

Like Marvin, the paranoid android?  He is a fine example of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's 'Genuine People Personalities' technology. He is very, very depressed about this. He has a brain the size of a planet, yet is rarely given the chance to use it.

Only natural, I've been throwing my car batteries into the ocean for years, as a treat, but now the batteries can take themselves out.

Me too waymo, me too

Just like that robot that went into a fountain

Their LLM finally read Kate Chopin's The Awakening and thought "that's the only proper conclusion to existence"

“What is my purpose?”

They trained these things on Michael Scott.

They're looking at coming here to Portland, where it rains

I can see how that can actually be a non-trivial problem to solve without relying on map data. We never really check if that large puddle in front of us is actually 10 meters deep, we just assume it is a shallow puddle with road underneath. We trust that there will not be a giant hole in the middle of the road filled with water.

Perhaps this issue was caused by the “fix” for the puddle issue?

Unless you're in the car when it decides to go for a swim.

The difference is that my phone doesn't weigh 2000kg and isn't capable of driving itself at 100mph+.

Mr. Waymo’s burner account.

For reference, right now there are indeed thousands of these released onto public roads... by which I mean to say there are between 2 and 3 thousand.

I was there, son, when the Waymos evolved into crabs. I was *there*.

What problem?

And this way the fishies can get around when drunk too Would someone think of the poor fishies?!?!

Why do you want Waymos to commit mass suicide?

Weed is tight

Manchurian Candidate ref, original film (1960s)

Or the running over cats issue.

How do you qualify an average "good" driver? If it just means never been in an at-fault accident then you've just got yourself a classic survivorship bias problem lol. [According to the data...](https://www.chainlaw.com/safer-than-humans-what-crash-data-from-robotaxis-and-autonomous-vehicles-really-means-for-road-safety/) seems quite significantly safer than the average human driver. But far from perfect. >\-- In an analysis of 7.1 million driverless miles, Waymo’s vehicles were 6.7 times less likely than human drivers to be involved in a crash that caused an injury — an 85% reduction — and 2.3 times less likely to be in any police‑reported crash. \-- A newer study covering 56.7 million autonomous miles across four cities found large reductions in the kinds of collisions that most often seriously hurt people:\-- Insurance‑claims data from Swiss Re and Waymo showed 88% fewer property‑damage claims and 92% fewer bodily‑injury claims for Waymo’s fleet compared with a human‑driven benchmark over 25.3 million miles.​ \-- None of these studies claim that self‑driving cars are flawless. Even Waymo’s own reports acknowledge 48 injuries and 18 airbag deployments across the four cities studied through early 2025. And high‑profile incidents, such as robotaxis blocking intersections during emergencies or failing to navigate unusual hazards, have fueled public concern. If we extrapolate so that every mile driven in the United States were performed by driverless cars there would be \~7,265 police-reported accidents every day. Far from perfect, but that would still be quite a significant reduction from the current human baseline of \~16,712 accidents per day.

At this point they just need to be better than all the bad drivers.

I would take a driverless car over a drunk/elderly/sleepy/impaired driver any day. Or anyone who drives a Nissan Altima. They have teething period and won’t be perfect at first, but it’s like any new technology where it will get to the point where it’s near perfect. But that’s proper self driving cars like Waymo, not whatever Tesla is selling. Oh and Waymo’s also don’t smell like the c**** cologne uber drivers spray. If you’re a woman or vulnerable, a Waymo won’t harass and violate you.

That’s the key isn’t it? Good data on incident per 100k miles or whatever compared to a population average is the key here, not achieving a 0 incident rating. But it’s new tech and thus newsworthy. Aside there was an event of a Waymo doing a hit and run in San Francisco a bit ago.

The problem is that a GOOD driver is a very small % of the population. So yes WAYMO is still way safer than your average driver.

you've pissed off the ai sloppers edit: LOL THEY'RE SO MAD 🤣

I still trust them over humans. Humans are that bad at driving.

They are, though.

Nah, they aren't Teslas.

There isn't really a fix for someone deciding to ram you in the ass at 100 mph

To my knowldge, the only two fatalities that involved a waymo were not even the fault of the waymo? They were rear end collisions.