Re:Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in ...
by well_ackshually on Friday January 30, 2026 @02:35AM
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It's funny because now you're sounding like you're blaming the school/the city for the situation.
Things are what they are. Driving situations are never perfect and that's why we adapt. The Waymo was speeding in a school zone. Did a dangerously fast overtake of a double parked car. It's engineering safety failure over engineering safety failure from Waymo's part, on nobody else.
Re:Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in ...
by cwillu on Friday January 30, 2026 @08:24AM
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> The Waymo was speeding in a school zone
Source? The article doesn't list a speed limit, but highways.dot.gov suggests to me that the speed limit would be 25mph in the school zone, in which case the waymo was going significantly under the speed limit.
That school should not be on a busy roadway at all, it should also not have a child dropoff area anywhere near one but instead, ideally, a slow loop where the parents do drop off children, and then proceed forward in a safe direction away from the school in a flow.