Frozen Waymos Backed Up San Francisco Traffic During A Widespread Power Outage

Waymo driverless car is not capable to observe postulation lights aft a awesome powerfulness outage successful San Francisco, California, | Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

A powerfulness outage struck San Francisco connected Saturday that blacked retired astir 130,000 customers astatine its peak, according to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, but besides caused different problem: stranded Waymo vehicles. Posts each complete societal media showed nan company's autonomous SUVs sitting still successful nan streets and causing postulation jams.

Some group posted videos of Teslas utilizing their FSD characteristic to navigate nan aforesaid streets, and Elon Musk tweeted that "Tesla Robotaxis were unaffected by nan SF powerfulness outage."

Power retired successful SF and nan @Waymo's are causing a MASSIVE jam successful North Beach 🤣 pic.twitter.com/fuvhprlyma

- Iago Maciel (@_iagomaciel) December 2 …

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