Posted on 12/09/2025 10:44:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Waymo is hitting the brakes on its robotaxi software and issuing a voluntary recall after school bus safety concerns came to light earlier this year.
The recall won’t necessarily pull cars from the road but will instead see them updated. It comes after an investigation by Nexstar’s KXAN found the company’s driverless vehicles illegally passed school buses with their stop arms out in Austin, Texas.
The Austin Independent School District said similar incidents occurred at least 19 times this school year, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened an investigation in October.
In November, cameras captured a Waymo car briefly stopping and then moving forward — all while a student was still crossing the road. The stop arms of the bus were out the entire time.
Other videos obtained by KXAN showed Waymo vehicles either driving past buses entirely or stopping alongside them rather than behind.
In six of the videos reviewed by KXAN, children could be seen in the video frame.
No injuries have been reported, but parents and law enforcement alike are raising red flags about Waymo vehicles’ programming.
“There are other districts that are being potentially impacted by these operations as well. … We want to be very vigilant about it,” said Wayne Sneed, Austin Independent School District (ISD) police chief.
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The plan all along was to force us into self driving EVs that would never work.
They’re pushing this as recklessly as the Covid jab.
To be fair, how many human drivers did the same thing?
“The plan all along was to force us into self driving EVs that would never work.”
With well over 100 million fully autonomous miles driven, we are making streets safer where we operate — achieving a more than ten-fold reduction in crashes with serious injuries compared to human drivers.
https://waymo.com/blog/2025/12/demonstrably-safe-ai-for-autonomous-driving
You work for Waymo?
Constant improvement is going to get us there...this is just an oversight imo.
My last Uber driver had a Tesla, drove me to the airport in FSD mode. TBH...I think Uber should have a filter for drives that use it, some won’t be comfortable.
The cabs are being recalled in order to replace the white robodriver with a Yemeni robodriver.
The Waymos here in Phoenix are well-behaved. I am surprised, because programming to stop at a school bus stop sign should be REALLY easy compared to everything else.
“You work for Waymo?”
Nope
The system was fielded too early. It needs waymo testing.
I think Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann has been moonlighting doing Waymo's data analysis on the side.
For one thing there is NO MENTION OF FATALITIES, and for the other the percentages used make the actual deltas look much more impressive then they actually are.
And it looks like their "peer reviews" are all done by the same couple of guys.
“For one thing there is NO MENTION OF FATALITIES, “
That is because there have been no Waymo caused fatal accidents.
“I think Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann has been moonlighting doing Waymo’s data analysis on the side.”
I think you have no facts.
Compared to an average human driver over the same distance in our operating cities, the Waymo Driver had
Overall crash reduction
91%
Fewer serious injury or worse crashes
20
fewer
91% Fewer serious injury or worse crashes (20 fewer)
79%
Fewer airbag deployment crashes
125
fewer
79% Fewer airbag deployment crashes (125 fewer)
80%
Fewer injury-causing crashes
304
fewer
80% Fewer injury-causing crashes (304 fewer)
Crash reductions involving injuries to Vulnerable Road Users
92%
Fewer pedestrian crashes with injuries
35
fewer
92% Fewer pedestrian crashes with injuries (35 fewer)
78%
Fewer cyclist crashes with Injuries
22
fewer
78% Fewer cyclist crashes with Injuries (22 fewer)
89%
Fewer motorcycle crashes with injuries
16
fewer
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