Amazon’s Zoox issues second software recall this month after San Francisco crash

Amazon.com’s self-driving unit Zoox has issued a second software recall this month to improve how its vehicles track nearby pedestrians and prevent movement when someone is close, following a crash in San Francisco earlier this month.

The recall covers 270 vehicles equipped with its Automated Driving Systems software, which had versions released prior to May 21, Zoox said in a report with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday. Zoox has updated the software.

On May 8, an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi was struck by an electric…