Waymo’s promise of safer streets is colliding with a very old piece of road reality: the flashing red lights of a school bus.

RICHMOND HEIGHTS, FLORIDA - MARCH 11: An electric bus is parked as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan visits during an event to highlight funding for electric school ...

While car design has changed radically over the decades, school buses look almost the same as they did nearly 100 years ago. Sure, they now carry more safety tech, but the big yellow bus with the ...

At a packed conference room in the nation’s capital, dozens of people gasped as they watched a video monitor playing a terrifying, yet common scene: Cars speeding past children as they approached ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. RICHMOND HEIGHTS, FLORIDA - MARCH 11: An electric bus is ...

For those of us who took the school bus as children, the smell of diesel exhaust is almost a core memory; I remember how it would linger in my nose and lungs as I rode to school, and the sight of the ...

Before sunrise on school days, 7-year-old Laike Glesne used to lug his backpack from a Chicago public bus to a train and then a second train to get to his second grade classroom 20 miles south of his ...

Bus #151 had collected 28 Edison students bound for John Adams Middle School by the time the driver realized they were in danger. As she approached a stop sign to turn, Bienvenid Almonte later wrote ...

The oldest school buses in the nation, which pose the biggest health risks to students and staff, are concentrated in the poorest districts and those with the highest proportions of students of color, ...