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A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses. It Didn’t Work
- Waymo vehicles in Austin continued to pass stopped school buses despite recalls and updates.
- AISD documented at least 19 alleged incidents where Waymo passed buses with active stop arms.
- NHTSA opened a federal probe into Waymo’s bus-passing behavior amid ongoing investigations.
- Experts warn data from parking lots may not translate to real-world on-road school-bus scenarios.
- Waymo admitted it had updated software but incidents persisted into January.
- A Waymo remote assistant misread a bus’s signals, contributing to a January incident.
- The incidents extended to a separate case near a California school, resulting in a collision with a pedestrian.
- Experts say teaching the 'last 1 percent' of exceptions for school zones remains extremely difficult.
- Waymo emphasizes fleet-wide learning but faces skepticism about cross-vehicle transfer of lessons.
- NTSB and NHTSA investigations continue as AISD evaluates legal options for student safety.
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