Waymo Self-Driving Automobiles
Left Stalled on Main Roads Throughout SF Energy Outage
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San Francisco was hit with a serious energy outage Saturday night time, turning the entire metropolis into darkness and dangerously stalling a ton of self-driving Waymo taxis.
The citywide outage pressured Waymo to halt its driverless automobile service, stranding the autonomous autos in the course of the streets and intersections, in keeping with pedestrians posting movies on X Saturday.
unhealthy day to be a Waymo in SF throughout a PG&E-induced energy outage pic.twitter.com/3SwEP993zn
— Mishaal Abbasi (@WhereIsMishaal) December 21, 2025
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A Waymo spokesperson tells TMZ that ride-hailing providers have been “briefly suspended” because of the outage. They added, “Our groups are working diligently and in shut coordination with metropolis officers to watch infrastructure stability, and we’re hopeful to carry our providers again on-line quickly.”
Energy out in SF and the @Waymo’s are inflicting a MASSIVE jam in North Seashore 🤣 pic.twitter.com/fuvhprlyma
— Iago Maciel (@_iagomaciel) December 21, 2025
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SFGATE experiences the corporate needed to shut down its operation at round 8 p.m. because of the automobiles being unable to function with out site visitors alerts.
In response to on-line footage, a minimum of 4 Waymo autos have been parked in the course of an intersection with their hazards on, creating a big site visitors jam on the busy intersection within the North Seashore neighborhood.
SFGATE experiences hundreds of San Franciscans nonetheless stay with out energy on Sunday morning, as PG&E crews proceed to work to revive electrical energy after a now practically day-long outage.
We have reached out to Waymo, to this point, no phrase again.
