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San Francisco Power Outage Disrupts Waymo Driverless Vehicles
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About 130,000 San Francisco customers lost power after a fire at a PG&E substation on Dec. 20-21, leaving roughly 17,000 still without electricity as crews worked overnight to restore service. The outage caused traffic-signal failures that froze multiple Waymo driverless vehicles and snarled city traffic, prompting Waymo service suspensions while Tesla's CEO claimed its FSD-equipped cars were unaffected.
Key Points
- 1Fire damages PG&E substation, triggers blackout affecting about 130,000 customers across San Francisco
- 2Waymo autonomous vehicles froze at dark intersections, causing traffic chaos and prompting temporary service suspension
- 3Tesla highlights FSD resilience publicly; operators should reassess robotaxi behavior during power-signal failures
Scoring Rationale
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