Amazon's Zoox Updates Self-Driving Software After San Francisco Incident

Hey guys, so get this. Amazon's self-driving car company, Zoox, just did a software update on their cars. It seems like they're trying to fix something after this little bump-up happened in San Francisco recently. Apparently, a person on an electric scooter was turning and hit one of those empty Zoox robo-taxis. The scooter rider got a little hurt and fell down right next to the car. Here's the wild part: the car started moving again after the person fell! Yeah, they said it stopped again pretty fast and didn't actually hit the person again, but still. Yikes.

Zoox actually stopped driving their cars around on the road for a bit after that incident to really look into things. They said this new software update is supposed to help the cars do a better job of seeing people when the car is stopped, moving super slow, or just about to start moving. They mentioned that in some rare cases, the car might start moving again without realizing someone is still right there. So, they paused everything, did the software update, and ran some tests. They're back to driving around now though.

Just so you know, these cars aren't actually for sale yet. Zoox owns all of them. They've been testing these self-driving cars in places like California and Nevada since last year, and now they're also in Florida and Texas. You can see them driving in lots of big cities like San Francisco, Las Vegas, Seattle, and Miami. Funny enough, this is the second time this month they've had to do a software update on 270 of their cars. Just a little while ago, they had another issue with a crash in Las Vegas. And before that, the government closed a look into their cars about a braking issue after Zoox did another software update.