{"id":782925,"date":"2026-05-08T22:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/782925\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:52:13","slug":"waymo-recovers-flooded-vehicle-plans-to-resume-san-antonio-operations-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/782925\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo recovers flooded vehicle, plans to resume San Antonio operations next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Waymo says it has recovered one of its self-driving vehicles after it was swept into a flooded roadway during recent heavy rain, prompting the company to temporarily pause operations in the city.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, a Waymo spokesperson confirmed the vehicle involved in the incident was unoccupied at the time.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/waymo-briefly-pauses-san-antonio-operations-after-empty-vehicle-swept-into-flooded-roadway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Waymo briefly pauses San Antonio operations after empty vehicle swept into flooded roadway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incident happened during a period of heavy rainfall, when the autonomous vehicle entered a flooded crossing and was pulled into an active waterway.<\/p>\n<p>Waymo says it coordinated with local authorities to recover the vehicle and has since successfully retrieved it.<\/p>\n<p>The company initially suspended service citywide following the incident out of an abundance of caution as crews assessed road safety conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Waymo now says it plans to resume operations in San Antonio early next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Waymo says it has recovered one of its self-driving vehicles after it was swept into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":782926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-782925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116541413803143212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}