US probes Alphabet unit Waymo robotaxis over school bus safety

Re:US probes Alphabet unit Waymo robotaxis over school bus s... by basisword on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:10AM (#45681388)

Human drivers can be seen and stopped by police and given an appropriate punishment. Self-driving cars have nobody to take accountability like that so you need to go back to the source.

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Re:US probes Alphabet unit Waymo robotaxis over school bus s... by some_random on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:23AM (#45681533)

Yeah but in many cases they're not, traffic enforcement went way down during Covid and it's still down.

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Re:US probes Alphabet unit Waymo robotaxis over school bus s... by daseiner1 on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:46AM (#45681771)

Most large cities I've lived in, general traffic enforcement essentially only exists on that month's/quarter's designated ticket-writing day. i.e., when highway patrol and city police just write speeding tickets all day to juice revenue

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Re:US probes Alphabet unit Waymo robotaxis over school bus s... by some_random on Thursday October 23, 2025 @11:10AM (#45682742)

I don't know what large cities you've lived in, but that's not what any experts seems to be saying in any piece I've ever read. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/29/upshot/traffi...

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Re:US probes Alphabet unit Waymo robotaxis over school bus s... by mitthrowaway2 on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:23PM (#45689652)

Their license to operate can be taken away, which is what happened to Cruise.

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