{"id":225436,"date":"2026-06-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/waymo-robotaxis-have-run-red-lights-driven-into-closed-and-flooded-roads-cnn-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:05:15","slug":"waymo-robotaxis-have-run-red-lights-driven-into-closed-and-flooded-roads-cnn-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/waymo-robotaxis-have-run-red-lights-driven-into-closed-and-flooded-roads-cnn-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo robotaxis have run red lights, driven into closed and flooded roads, CNN finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/waymo-robotaxis-safety-invs\">Waymo robotaxis have run red lights, driven into closed and flooded roads, CNN finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/waymo-robotaxis-safety-invs\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/waymo-robotaxis-safety-invs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A CNN investigation highlighted numerous incidents involving Waymo&#8217;s robotaxis running red lights, driving into flooded roads, and obstructing emergency responders. <\/li>\n<li>Local and city officials have expressed safety concerns and the drainage of resources due to Waymo&#8217;s operations.<\/li>\n<li>Waymo has faced increasing issues and recalls of its vehicles, including suspensions of freeway operations.<\/li>\n<li>Waymo asserts that its vehicles are safer than human-driven cars, but CNN findings revealed safety problems due to the autonomous system.<\/li>\n<li>Incidents include Waymo robotaxis ignoring traffic signals, crossing into oncoming traffic, and failing to stop for pedestrians.<\/li>\n<li>Waymo paused services after robotaxis were involved in serious events, including a high-speed police chase and operating in flood zones.<\/li>\n<li>Experts warn that Waymo\u2019s expansion to more cities could lead to more unforeseen safety issues.<\/li>\n<li>Waymo maintains it is working on improvements and that most rides are uneventful, pointing to a lack of transparency from the company as one issue.<\/li>\n<li>There have been calls for increased accountability and reporting of near-collisions and other safety issues from Waymo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waymo robotaxis have run red lights, driven into closed and flooded roads, CNN finds https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/waymo-robotaxis-safety-invs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/01-gettyimages-1788130846.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225438,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225436\/revisions\/225438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}