Zoox issues recall after robotaxi drives through heavy smoke in Las V…

Zoox, Amazon's autonomous vehicle unit, issued a software recall after one of its robotaxis drove through heavy smoke from a Las Vegas fire, exposing a gap in environmental perception. The incident reveals safety-critical limitations in current AV sensor and decision-making systems under real-world emergency conditions. If you're building sensor fusion, lidar, or decision software for autonomous vehicles, this recall proves environmental edge cases (smoke, dust, extreme weather) are unresolved - and regulators now know it. Your startup's handling of degraded perception is now a differentiator competitors can't claim yet.