{"id":10266,"date":"2026-11-09T23:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T23:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2026-11-09T23:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T23:41:28","slug":"waymo-school-bus-problem-the-us-government-says-it-didnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=10266","title":{"rendered":"Waymo Said It Fixed Its School Bus Problem. The US Government Says It Didn\u2019t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"body lead-in-text\">The US government<\/span> is examining whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/waymo\/\" class=\"text link\">Waymo<\/a>\u2019s recall of software involved with a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/a-school-district-tried-to-help-train-waymos-to-stop-for-school-buses-it-didnt-work\/\" class=\"text link\">school bus passing incidents last fall<\/a> actually fixed the safety issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The formal investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will determine whether the company\u2019s supposed software fix succeeded in preventing its robotaxis from improperly passing stopped school buses with red lights on and their stop arms extended\u2014indicators that the buses were picking up and dropping off students. It is illegal to pass these stopped school buses in all 50 states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">According to a filing, Waymo issued a fix for the software issue in mid-November, and an official voluntary recall a month later. But the government says that the majority of school bus issues occurred after that date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Earlier this year, a <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/investigations\/Pages\/HWY26FH007.aspx\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/investigations\/Pages\/HWY26FH007.aspx&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/investigations\/Pages\/HWY26FH007.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> from the National Transportation Safety Board, the US\u2019 independent safety agency, found that another school bus passing incident occurred in mid-January, several weeks after the supposed software fix. The NTSB is also investigating the school bus passing issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In a written statement, Waymo spokesperson Dana Gallagher said the company has \u201cmade significant improvements to vehicle behavior around school buses,\u201d and that it has not been cited for passing school buses since last March\u2014months after the mid-December software recall. She wrote that Waymo looks \u201cforward to continuing our engagement on recall processes for AV software that continues to learn and improve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Late last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/a-school-district-tried-to-help-train-waymos-to-stop-for-school-buses-it-didnt-work\/\" class=\"text link\">WIRED has reported<\/a>, the Austin school district even helped set up a half-day data collection event for Waymo\u2019s vehicles, coordinating with the self-driving vehicle developer to bring school buses and stop-arm signals to an empty parking lot so that the company could collect information to help train their vehicles to avoid the illegal street maneuver. The data collection event occurred after Waymo had issued its software fix and voluntary recall. Still, the incidents continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In years past, recall queries like this one have <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/laws-regulations\/civil-penalty-settlements\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/laws-regulations\/civil-penalty-settlements&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/laws-regulations\/civil-penalty-settlements\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">led to civil penalties<\/a>, some of them costing automakers and software developers tens of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/waymo-school-bus-problem-the-us-government-says-it-didnt-work\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government is examining whether Waymo\u2019s recall of software involved with a series of school bus passing incidents last fall actually fixed the safety issue. The formal investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will determine whether the company\u2019s supposed software fix succeeded in preventing its robotaxis from improperly passing stopped school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50,179,954,579,47,274],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-government","tag-regulation","tag-robotaxis","tag-schools","tag-transportation","tag-waymo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Waymo Said It Fixed Its School Bus Problem. 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