Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous vehicle brainchild, just hit the brakes—literally. In a bold move that screams ‘safety first,’ they’ve issued a voluntary software recall for their entire fleet. Why? Well, a fender bender in Las Vegas last month (thankfully, no one was hurt) got them digging deeper into their tech. The details? They’re all laid out in a blog post, but the gist is simple: every Zoox vehicle is now smarter, thanks to some serious software upgrades.
This isn’t Zoox’s first rodeo with the regulators, though. Remember last year when the NHTSA was all over them about some Toyota Highlanders hitting the brakes out of nowhere? Yeah, that was a thing. It’s moments like these that make you wonder if self-driving cars are really ready to take over the roads. But here’s the kicker: Zoox didn’t just sit on their hands after the Vegas incident. Nope. They stopped, figured out what went wrong, and fixed it—fast. That’s the kind of hustle that could teach the whole industry a lesson or two about putting safety in the driver’s seat.
