Waymo 5th Generation Ads, model year 9999. Filed by Waymo LLC and reported to NHTSA on 13 June 2026. 3,871 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Waymo LLC (Waymo) is recalling certain 5th Generation Automated Driving Systems (ADS). The software may allow the vehicle to enter a closed freeway construction zone and continue driving at speed.
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26E035 cover?
- Waymo 5Th Generation Ads.
- What is wrong with them?
- Waymo LLC (Waymo) is recalling certain 5th Generation Automated Driving Systems (ADS). The software may allow the vehicle to enter a closed freeway construction zone and continue driving at speed.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Driving through a closed construction zone increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Beginning June 16, 2026 Waymo updated the ADS software to detect when the vehicle is in and to avoid entering construction zones, free of charge. Waymo resumed vehicle operations on freeway June 25, 2026.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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: “Driving through a closed construction zone increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26E035 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Waymo LLC |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Adas:Autonomous/Self Driving:Software |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 June 2026 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | WAYMO 5TH GENERATION ADS |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Driving through a closed construction zone increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Beginning June 16, 2026 Waymo updated the ADS software to detect when the vehicle is in and to avoid entering construction zones, free of charge. Waymo resumed vehicle operations on freeway June 25, 2026.
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 26E035, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26e035/
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
- 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
- 25E034: 5th Generation Automated Driving Systems (ADS) with software versions released prior to the November 7, 2024 software 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 26E035 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
26c2ee49 - Consequence
1321eb48 - 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 26E035 · how the whole register is watched
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