The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a call to action for all automated vehicle makers, including Waymo and Tesla, to fix a dangerous issue causing their robotaxis to ignore emergency situations. In a letter dated July 8, the NHTSA stated it has "documented multiple instances in which AVs drove directly into active emergency scenes, blocked the paths of ambulances and firefighters, or failed to recognize and respond to basic safety conditions like flashing lights, flares, smoke, fire, and traffic cones." The article cites a tragic mass shooting in Austin, Texas, earlier this year, where two people were killed and 14 were injured, and an emergency vehicle was severely delayed by a malfunctioning Waymo. In February, a driverless Waymo vehicle with a passenger drove into the middle of an active police scene in Atlanta, Georgia, where an armed suspect had fired at law enforcement, grazing one in the head.