Self-Driving · December 2025Gaffe level: Feral
Waymo to issue software recall over how robotaxis behave around school buses
After the Austin school district logged 19 incidents of Waymo robotaxis zooming past stopped school buses, in one case "only moments after a student crossed in front of the vehicle," Waymo filed a software recall with NHTSA, conceding that its famously safe fleet had never quite learned what a stop arm means.
Source: TechCrunch
A Thought-Controlled Bionic Arm Moved Into Its First Home Trial
Avi Davidson, who lost his left arm 17 years ago, is the first person to take the University of Utah's thought-controlled LUKE Arm home for a full year. The direct nerve interface lets him move the arm with his thoughts and feel pressure and texture through it, so within days he was making a sandwich and holding his wife's hand.
Source: University of Utah