Waymo 5th Generation Ads, model year 9999. Filed by Waymo LLC and reported to NHTSA on 12 May 2025. 1,212 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Waymo LLC (Waymo) is recalling certain 5th Generation Automated Driving Systems (ADS) with software versions released prior to the November 7, 2024 software release. The software may cause the vehicles to collide with certain roadway barriers, such as chains and gates.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Waymo's own number for this recall: R25-001. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25E034 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 25E034 cover?
- Waymo 5Th Generation Ads.
- What is wrong with them?
- Waymo LLC (Waymo) is recalling certain 5th Generation Automated Driving Systems (ADS) with software versions released prior to the November 7, 2024 software release. The software may cause the vehicles to collide with certain roadway barriers, such as chains and gates.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A vehicle that crashes into chains, gates, or other gate-like roadway barriers increases the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Waymo has updated the ADS software, free of charge. All affected vehicles were repaired by December 26, 2024.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Waymo calls this recall R25-001, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A vehicle that crashes into chains, gates, or other gate-like roadway barriers increases the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25E034 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Waymo LLC |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Adas:Autonomous/Self Driving:Software |
| Reported to NHTSA | 12 May 2025 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | WAYMO 5TH GENERATION ADS |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A vehicle that crashes into chains, gates, or other gate-like roadway barriers increases the risk of injury.
The remedy
Waymo has updated the ADS software, free of charge. All affected vehicles were repaired by December 26, 2024.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25E034, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25e034/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other Waymo notices we hold
- 26E035: 5th Generation Automated Driving Systems (ADS)
- 26E026: 5th and 6th Generation Automated Driving Systems (ADS)
- 25E084: 5th Generation Automated Driving Systems (ADS) operating a software version prior to the November 5, 2025 release
- 24E049: 5th Generation Automated Driving Systems (ADS) with software versions released prior to May 29, 2024 and map software released prior to June 4, 2024
- 24E013: 5th Generation Automated Driving Systems (ADS) with software versions released prior to December 20, 2023
All 6 Waymo campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 25E034 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
a0bdc72a - Consequence
4e84793f - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
The wording we hold for 25E034 · how the whole register is watched
493 days after this was filed with the regulator, the register still carries no date for the letter to owners. The sixty days 49 CFR 577.7 allows have passed. A blank there is a gap in the record, which is not the same as a gap in the post: every notice still without one.
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