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Regulators ask whether Waymo's school bus fix worked on 2,895 robotaxisMost of the reported passes of stopped school buses came after the software update. Austin's school district logged 19 and Atlanta's logged six.Recalls and Failures · Ines Varga · 2026-11-12GM recalls 67,380 electric vehicles over software that briefly cuts brakingThe fault sits in the brake control software of all-wheel-drive Blazer EV, Lyriq, Vistiq and Celestiq models. GM counts 20 minor crashes and two minor injuries. The fix is a free software update.Recalls and Failures · Ines Varga · 2026-11-11Little Giant recalls 3.66 million ladders whose locks can let them retractThe Rapid Locks on 11 model lines can fail to engage. The company counts 19 injuries, three of them to the head. The standard fix is a free repair kit.Recalls and Failures · Ines Varga · 2026-11-11

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