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The National Highway Transportation Safety Agency regulates the safety of vehicles sold in the USA. Earlier in May they sent Waymo a letter indicating they were investigating 22 incidents involving Waymo vehicles. May 23, they wrote to say thy were adding 9 more. The incidents stretch back to August of 2021, but most are more recent. Most of these incidents are surprisingly minor, with no injuries and just minor property damage, plus a few violations of rules of the road.
Waymo had declined, so far, to answer queries about these events and the investigation. While it’s common for companies to not comment on matters under official investigation, this is a change of tack for Waymo, which has been much more forthcoming than Cruise, Tesla or other companies in the space. It’s time, if regulators plan to regulate, for them to decide and be public about the terms under which they will do this. Regulators are charged with improving overall road safety, which means analysis of data, not of incidents, except when they are part of data or help inform about larger trends.
Looking over the requested incidents, they involve things like hitting road debris, clipping parking gates and chains, hitting spikes, scraping the bottom in construction, winging a parked car at low speed, but also two collisions, and one intersection mistake which involved a moped sliding while trying to avoid the Waymo.
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