The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a recall query into 2,895 Waymo vehicles.^[1] The review asks whether a Waymo software recall fixed robotaxis passing stopped school buses.^[2] A fix that preceded most of the failures Waymo said its software update reached all affected cars by 17 November 2025.^[3] It filed the school bus software recall on 10 December 2025.^[4] That voluntary recall covered more than 3,000 vehicles.^[5] Most of the school bus passing incidents happened after 17 November 2025.^[6] In other words, most of the violations on file came after the remedy was in place.^[7] The counts The Austin, Texas school district logged 19 Waymo school bus violation incidents.^[8] Atlanta's public schools logged six.^[9] Together that is 25 documented incidents in two cities. A second open file This is not the agency's only Waymo inquiry involving children. In January 2026 it opened a separate investigation after a Waymo car struck a child near a California school.^[10] That crash was in Santa Monica.^[11] The market Shares of Alphabet, Waymo's parent, were up 1.8% in premarket trading at 6:32 a.m. Eastern time.^[12]