Friday, December 26, 2025

Waymo driverless cars navigated 7,000 dark traffic lights during the San Francisco blackout without accident

Amazing stuff!

"... Waymo said the self-driving system in its robotaxis treats dead stop lights as four-way stops, just like humans are supposed to. That should have allowed the robotaxis to operate normally in spite of the massive outage. ...

While a lot of focus has been placed on the instances where Waymo’s robotaxis got stuck during the power outage, the company shared that its vehicles “successfully traversed more than 7,000 dark signals on Saturday.” ..."

Waymo explains why its robotaxis got stuck during the SF blackout | TechCrunch




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