Frozen Waymos backed up San Francisco traffic during a widespread power outage

Waymo driverless car is not capable to observe postulation lights aft a large 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 implicit societal media showed the company's autonomous SUVs sitting inactive successful the streets and causing postulation jams.

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

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