Amazon's Zoox Updates Software After San Francisco Incident

Hey, so you know that Amazon self-driving car thing, Zoox? Well, apparently they had a bit of a hiccup in San Francisco recently.

Someone on an electric scooter was turning, right? And they bumped into an empty Zoox robotaxi. Nothing too crazy, just a low-speed bump. The scooter rider got a couple of scrapes, like, minor injuries, and fell near the car. The weird part is, the car *then* started moving a little bit before stopping, but it didn't hit the person again. Still kinda spooky though, right?

Because of that, Zoox actually stopped their cars from driving around for a bit to figure things out. They just put out like, their second software update to make the cars better at seeing people nearby. The update helps the cars, especially when they're stopped or going super slow, so they don't start moving again if someone's still right there.

This update is for 270 of their test cars, just so you know. These aren't cars you can buy yet, they're all owned by Zoox. They've been testing these things out in places like California, Nevada, Florida, and Texas since last year. Now they're driving around in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Vegas, Seattle, Austin, and Miami.

Oh, and get this, this isn't the first time they've had to do a software update! Earlier this month, they did one for the same number of cars after one of their empty robotaxis crashed into a regular car in Las Vegas back in April. And before that, the government actually looked into Zoox cars because of a braking issue, but they closed that case after Zoox did another software update. It seems like they're definitely still working on making these things perfect!