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Waymo Self-Driving Vehicles Reportedly Passed Stopped School Buses at Least 19 Times, Prompting NHTSA Probe

December 4, 2025

Reports indicate that self-driving vehicles operated by Waymo allegedly broke traffic laws 19 times in Texas during the 2025 school year, passing stopped school buses despite flashing red lights and extended stop arms. This issue persisted even after software updates supposed to resolve it, leading to an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The incident underscores the importance of trustworthy AI practices and the need for effective governance and management through initiatives like HISPI Project Cerebellum's TAIM. To learn more about our mission to ensure safe and secure AI, JOIN US.

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Alleged deployer
waymo
Alleged developer
waymo
Alleged harmed parties
general-public, general-public-of-texas, school-children, texas-school-children, students, pedestrians, austin-independent-school-district, drivers

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1300

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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