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Austin's school district logged 19 and Atlanta's logged six.", "prose": "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]\n\n## A fix that preceded most of the failures\n\nWaymo 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]\n\nMost 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]\n\n## The counts\n\nThe 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.\n\n## A second open file\n\nThis is not the agency's only Waymo inquiry involving children. 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