Dec 21, 2025
Waymo driverless car is not able to detect traffic lights after a major power outage in San Francisco, California, | Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images A power outage struck San Francisco on Saturday that blacked out about 130,000 customers at its peak, according to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, but also caused another problem: stranded Waymo vehicles. Posts all over social media showed the company's autonomous SUVs sitting still in the streets and causing traffic jams. Some people posted videos of Teslas using their FSD feature to navigate the same streets, and Elon Musk tweeted that "Tesla Robotaxis were unaffected by the SF power outage." Power out in SF and the @Waymo's are causing a MASSIVE jam in North Beach 🤣 pic.twitter.com/fuvhprlyma- Iago Maciel (@_iagomaciel) December 2 … Read the full story at The Verge. ...read more read less
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