In what appears to be a vehicle recall epidemic, the self-driving car service Waymo has issued a software recall after two of its vehicles collided with a tow truck in December. A tow truck was pulling a pickup truck in Phoenix, Arizona when a Waymo vehicle's camera sensor allegedly misjudged the truck's location, causing the collision. The truck continued driving and was hit a few minutes later by a second Waymo vehicle – there were no passengers in either Waymo vehicle at the time of the accident. Waymo announced the recall in a blog post on Tuesday, repeatedly calling the incident a'rare event' and said it had immediately started rolling out a software update to its entire fleet of autonomous vehicles. The company said it reported the crashes to the Phoenix Police Department, the Arizona Department of Public Safety, and the NHTSA and conducted an internal review of the two incidents.

Tesla has issued its second recall in as many weeks, although this may be more strategic than it is urgent. As the AP noted, The new recall covers 11,704 Tesla EVs from 2017 or newer (including the Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X) that were prone to "false-positive braking" after a buggy Full Self-Driving beta update from October 23rd led to a communications breakdown between two chips. The company fixed the issue on October 25th. The day before, it also cancelled the flawed update and disabled emergency braking on cars still using that beta release. There were no reports of crashes or injuries, Tesla said. The automaker decided to issue a recall on October 26th.