Episode
Suddenly Unavoidable, a AV PR story.
- Podcast
- There Auto Be A Law
- Published
- Feb 5, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 4165
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Summary
Phil Koopman joins us to discuss Waymo and it's trouble dealing with school zones, school buses and school children. Waymo's PR team claims their vehicle hit a kid safer than a human would have and try not to think to hard about this or you can see it's 99% PR fluff. Plus recalls. Support the show! https://philkoopman.substack.com/p/was-the-robotaxi-crash-really-unavoidable https://philkoopman.substack.com/p/my-new-book-embodied-ai-safety https://www.the-autonomous.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/the-autonomous-safetyarchitecture-fullreport-2nd-edition-2025.pdf https://junkoyoshidaparis.substack.com/p/waymos-superhuman-model-whats-its https://www.usatoday.com/story/cars/news/2026/01/29/waymo-car-child-santa-monica-california/88414940007/ https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/misleading-text-physical-world-can-hijack-ai-enabled-robots https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2026/RCLRPT-26V030-0889.pdf https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2026/RCLRPT-26V034-7650.pdf https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2026/RCLRPT-26V023-1627.pdf https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2026/RCLRPT-26V038-3798.pdf https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2026/RCLRPT-26V046-2043.pdf