Zoox Automated Driving System, model year 9999. Filed by Zoox, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 10 July 2026. 105 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Zoox, Inc. (Zoox) is recalling certain Automated Driving Systems (ADS). The ADS software may fail to detect heavy smoke, allowing the vehicle to enter an area of low visibility, particularly active emergency scenes.
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.
Zoox's own number for this recall: 26-01. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26E044 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 26E044 cover?
- Zoox Automated Driving System.
- What is wrong with them?
- Zoox, Inc. (Zoox) is recalling certain Automated Driving Systems (ADS). The ADS software may fail to detect heavy smoke, allowing the vehicle to enter an area of low visibility, particularly active emergency scenes.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Failing to respond to low visibility conditions can increase the risk of a crash or impede first responders.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Zoox has updated the ADS software, free of charge. Zoox's number for this recall is 26-01.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Zoox calls this recall 26-01, 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: “Failing to respond to low visibility conditions can increase the risk of a crash or impede first responders.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26E044 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Zoox, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Adas:Autonomous/Self Driving:Software |
| Reported to NHTSA | 10 July 2026 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | ZOOX AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEM |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Failing to respond to low visibility conditions can increase the risk of a crash or impede first responders.
The remedy
Zoox has updated the ADS software, free of charge. Zoox's number for this recall is 26-01.
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 26E044, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26e044/
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 Zoox notices we hold
- 25E090: Automated Driving Systems (ADS) equipped with software versions released prior to December 29, 2025
- 25E037: Automated Driving Systems (ADS) equipped with software versions released prior to May 21, 2025
- 25E029: Automated Driving Systems (ADS) equipped with software versions released prior to April 17, 2025
- 25E019: Automated Driving Systems (ADS) equipped with software versions released prior to November 5, 2024
All 5 Zoox 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 26E044 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
60e98b18 - Consequence
c7e70c00 - 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 26E044 · how the whole register is watched
69 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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