Posted on 12/21/2025 6:57:19 AM PST by Salman
Metro Long Island Politics World News Search Type to Search Search US News San Francisco power outage left 130,000 in the dark as self-driving cars stalled in middle of streets By Nicholas McEntyre Published Dec. 20, 2025, 11:30 p.m. ET Today's Video Headlines
00:22 / 00:49 San Francisco plunged into darkness when nearly 30 percent of the city was struck by a power outage, which brought vital transportation, such as self-driving cars, to a grinding halt on Saturday night.
Over 130,000 houses and businesses were left in the dark, largely in the northwest part of San Francisco, including the Richmond, Sunset, Presidio, and Golden Gate Park sections, officials said on Saturday.
As of early Sunday morning, more than 29,000 people were still without power, according to PowerOutageUS.
The “citywide” outages forced Waymo to halt its driverless car service, stranding the autonomous vehicles in the middle of the streets, SF Gate reported.
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The “citywide” outages forced Waymo to halt its driverless car service, stranding the autonomous vehicles in the middle of the streets, SF Gate reported.
China, is that you?
Did the doors stay locked and trap people inside ?
Can’t just take off the brake and push it at 4,000 lbs
Self driving cars are vital transportation in San Francisco?
That’s such a first world non schiffhole city problem
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Drivers and pedestrians are nothing but guinea pigs to these korporations.
“[You humans are so amusing. Your only worthy contributions to the galaxy are endless entertainment and popped corn]” —Mcmzk Plxlplq
Stranded suddenly - I would have thought the cars would be designed to be battery powered but instead they apparently have long cords to the grid.
Stranded suddenly - I would have thought the cars would be designed to be battery powered but instead they apparently have long cords to the grid.
There’s nothing like CA progress to set you up for a setback.
Couldn’t the cars have pulled off to the side of the road, to at least not block traffic? No, apparently not.
Ha! Ha!
Could they at least blow the horn?
California leftists have somehow succeeded in romanticizing the Third World and the Dark Ages.
Apparently, these “autonomous” self driving cars are not really autonomous.
Would appear to be a serious vulnerability.
I couldn’t imagine trying push anything heavy on the streets of San Francisco.
Being on flat road would be bad enough.
Classic Top Gear:
https://youtu.be/o3SVQEGIrnk?si=X0Pdn4zzitkx7d50&t=147
”…But you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” —Abraham Lincoln
But you are absolutely right! 🙂
Good.
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