# Waymo recalled its driverless software after its cars moved off before stopped school buses had retracted their stop arms, with 12 citations issued

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20251210-ride-hail-driver-5
Date: 2025-12-10 · Stage: Constraint
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## Scope

United States. The operator's recall report to the federal safety regulator says its vehicles that were stopped or stopping for a school bus with flashing red lights or an extended stop arm would proceed again before the bus had deactivated them, that the behaviour appeared with a software release broadly deployed in mid-September 2025, that it was aware of 12 citations between 25 September and 14 November 2025, and that 3,067 vehicles were potentially involved; the fix was rolled out in November. The company's own filing; it reports no collisions and does not show a human driver would have done better.

## Source

- Waymo LLC — Part 573 Safety Recall Report 25E084 filed with NHTSA (submitted 10 December 2025) — https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RCLRPT-25E084-7732.pdf (primary source)

## What this means

A deployed robotaxi fleet failed a common road situation often enough to draw citations and a fleet-wide recall.

## What it does not show yet

One failure mode, fixed by a software update, with no collisions.

## How to verify it yourself

Open NHTSA recall report 25E084 (RCLRPT-25E084-7732) and find "Waymo is aware of 12 citations".


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