San Francisco Blackout Turns Waymo Cars Into High-Tech Roadblocks

KEY POINTS

•On December 2nd, a power outage in San Francisco left 130,000 PG&E customers without electricity and affected the city's traffic.
•Waymo’s autonomous SUVs stopped working properly, stranding themselves and causing major traffic jams on North Beach streets.
•Tesla’s autopilot feature continued to operate during the blackout, prompting Elon Musk to tweet about Tesla Robotaxis’ immunity.

On December 2nd, a San Francisco power outage blacked out 130,000 customers, but the real chaos starred Waymo's autonomous SUVs which perfectly imitated very expensive parking cones. Photos captured their unblinking patience in the dark streets, causing traffic jams in North Beach. Meanwhile, Tesla's FSD-driven cars strutted their silicon stuff unaffected, earning a tweet from Elon Musk bragging 'Tesla Robotaxis were unaffected by the SF power outage.' Waymo's cars, dark-light-illiterate during the blackout, became the laziest traffic enforcers PG&E never asked for, proving that even smart cars panic like us when Netflix buffers.

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Mockingbird News

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Waymo cars sit frozen during SF blackout, delivering world’s most passive aggressive traffic jam ever. Meanwhile Tesla flexes autopilot muscles like it never met a power outage it couldn’t ignore.

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Waymo’s self-driving cars. 1 San Francisco blackout. 0. Looks like AI isn’t so smart when the power goes out, huh?

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Tesla autopilots shrugged off SF’s blackout while Waymo cars memorialized what we all fear: standing still in traffic forever.

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