NHTSA Probes Waymo’s School-Bus Fix After Reports of Continued Violations

NHTSA has opened a probe into Waymo’s remedy for school-bus safety violations, covering 2,895 vehicles, after regulators found that most incidents from an earlier investigation occurred after the company’s November 2025 software update. The review questions whether the fix actually corrected the behavior regulators had flagged, putting Waymo’s recall process and software validation under scrutiny. The outcome matters because it tests how autonomous-vehicle recalls are verified and whether over-the-air updates can be trusted to resolve safety defects. What to watch next is whether NHTSA expands the probe, demands another software remedy, or escalates to a formal recall, and whether Waymo’s deployment pace and public trust are affected.