A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses (wired.com) AI

WIRED reports that Austin Independent School District officials alleged Waymo robotaxis repeatedly passed school buses while their stop arms and red lights were active, despite software updates and a federal recall. The district and Waymo also held a mid-December data-collection event meant to improve recognition of school-bus signals, but violations continued into January and are still under investigation by the NTSB. The incident highlights challenges in training self-driving systems to reliably handle hard-to-detect safety devices and rare edge cases.