THE US GOVERNMENT is examining whether Waymo’s recall of software involved with a series of school bus passing incidents last fall actually fixed the safety issue.
The formal investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will determine whether the company’s supposed software fix succeeded in preventing its robotaxis from improperly passing stopped school buses with red lights on and their stop arms extended—indicators that the buses were picking up and dropping off students. It is illegal to pass these stopped school buses in all 50 states.
According to a filing, Waymo issued a fix for the software issue in mid-November and a voluntary recall a month later. But the government says that the majority of school bus issues occurred after that date.
Why are still so few laws that would penalize the company for misbehaving self driving cars? It’s no longer a new problem.
We need major penalties or people will die.
Don’t need to penalize the company. Just penalize whoever is in the car just like you would an ordinary driver, and make the penalty for passing a stopped school bus be 6 months in jail. No one will take a Waymo if they hear about people randomly going to jail over it.
Indeed don’t penalize the company; penalize the CEO. That six-month jail time can go directly to someone who will care about it and has the power to do something about it.
Well you see officer, I was speeding because of a software glitch.
The exuberance of youth is a common glitch in early releases.
