Authorities investigating Waymo over failure to stop for school buses

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/waymo-investigation-could-stop-autonomous-driving-in-its-tracks

Comments

biophysboyDec 6, 2025, 4:04 AM
When I took a Waymo in California, it was a nearly perfect experience. The one exception was when a person in front of me stopped and tried to parallel park on the right side of the road. The Waymo wasn't giving them enough space, sort of inching forward as they attempted to back in. I felt bad - I could see as we passed that the car had stressed them out. I still think Waymos are good overall, but it kind of surprised me it didn't know how to handle this situation.
dcreDec 6, 2025, 3:35 AM
Really weird intro about the increase in auto fatalities, for two reasons:

1) fatalities have declined a lot from their pandemic peak. It looks kind of like a reversion to trend

2) exactly none of those fatalities were caused by a Waymo, because there has never been a Waymo fatality

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

bohDec 6, 2025, 3:42 AM
Who knows what the article actually says it's 95% ads.
rl3Dec 6, 2025, 3:42 AM
>... because there has never been a Waymo fatality

I'm afraid poor Kit Kat would disagree:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/waymo-kit-kat-san-fran...

rl3Dec 6, 2025, 4:39 AM
Guess folks here don't like cats.

What's terrifying is it could've just as easily been a child that was playing and trying to retrieve a ball, thinking the car's parked because there's no driver.

AloisiusDec 6, 2025, 3:48 AM
Wow. This article is peak slop. Seriously. Absolute garbage.

This kind of word vomit, in a sane world, would permanently destroy a site's reputation.

standardUserDec 6, 2025, 4:06 AM
I want to see more autonomous driving news here and everywhere, because I think people are sleeping on it, but this isn't new it's a series of sloppily integrated dark patterns in a trenchcoat.