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Major power outage in San Francisco, Waymo’s don’t know what to do
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:00 pm
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:00 pm
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WAYMO CARS FREEZE ACROSS SAN FRANCISCO AFTER BLACKOUT KILLS TRAFFIC LIGHTS
Dozens of driverless Waymos are just sitting in intersections with no clue what to do.
Lights are out, roads are jammed, and the robots are frozen.
Locals say every direction is blocked.
Some cars are stuck trying to turn, others just sitting in the middle of the road like it's a parking lot.
The chaos started after a massive power outage knocked out signals across the city.
The Waymos weren’t built to handle this. And it shows.
Right now, a Waymo engineer is realizing the cars don’t know what to do without a green light.
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LARGEST BLACKOUT IN SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY SHUTS OFF GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
The power cut out in the middle of a rainy day, just in time to ruin holiday plans and trap people on broken trains.
Public transit? Dead. Bay Area Rapid Transit stations shut down. Muni and the Central Subway went silent.
If you tried to get across the city, good luck. Especially with traffic lights out and no one remembering how a four-way stop works.
The spark? A literal one. A fire inside a PG&E substation lit up the Mission district.
Officials say it probably helped knock out power, but no one’s sure if it was the whole reason. PG&E isn’t talking much.
The outage hit 130,000 people, wiping out electricity for almost a third of San Francisco.
Rain's still coming, more storms are on the way, and the grid clearly wasn’t ready.
Still no answers, no accountability, and more rain in the forecast.
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 9:16 pm
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Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:03 pm to hawgfaninc
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edited on 12/20/25 at 9:16 pm
ETA: OP edited his original post. Such a pussy to not take responsibility for what he originally said.
That 3 second video certainly proves it without a shadow of a doubt.
Quit believing everything you read on the internet.
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 9:39 pm
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:05 pm to fightin tigers
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San Francisco, CA (DEC.20.2025)
It’s official. This is the 1,000th posted video from the Sunset Project™?.
Just over 20m views on X to date.
This afternoon’s flurry of frozen Waymo’s across the city of San Francisco causing a historic traffic meltdown has brought about the milestone a little quicker than planned.
Thank you to everyone that sends in these safety critical failures and disengagement videos. Logging and tagging these videos gives us a transparent look at the platform and it’s course of improvement over the past few years.
We have carefully detailed the progress that is lacking and will continue to do so.
The future looks incredibly bright.
The competition between Waymo, Zoox, and Tesla will be watched closely. We have a lot of lives to save.
Cheers!
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fightin tigers
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 9:17 pm
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:07 pm to hawgfaninc
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:08 pm to hawgfaninc
SF folks gotta work on their shitshow game.
In NOLA, we’d have this outage for the middle of a Super Bowl in the Superdome.
In NOLA, we’d have this outage for the middle of a Super Bowl in the Superdome.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:08 pm to fightin tigers
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:10 pm to hawgfaninc
Won’t lie I thought Waymo was a new nickname given to some group….not sure which group exactly….little disappointed to find out that its driverless cars.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:10 pm to hawgfaninc
So to put your original post of "millions without power" into context. San Franscisco doesn't even have a million residents.
Im sure there is some "well technically" rebuttal
Im sure there is some "well technically" rebuttal
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:11 pm to fightin tigers
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:12 pm to fightin tigers
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:18 pm to hawgfaninc
Looks like a hell of a traffic jam there with everyone going around.
135,000 without power.
MILLIONS!!!!
SLAMMED!!!
OWNED!!!!
DESTROYED!!!
135,000 without power.
MILLIONS!!!!
SLAMMED!!!
OWNED!!!!
DESTROYED!!!
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 9:19 pm
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:19 pm to fightin tigers
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:20 pm to hawgfaninc
BILLIONS ARE WITHOUT POWER NOW!!! BILLIONS!!
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:21 pm to hawgfaninc
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:27 pm to fightin tigers
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The ongoing power outage across San Francisco is proving to be a nightmare scenario for autonomous vehicle operations. As traffic signals remain dark across the city, the limitations of self-driving logic are being exposed in a very public and disruptive way.
New footage emerging from the scene confirms that the issue is far more widespread than a few isolated cars. A video shared by user @fulligin on X shows a line of Waymo vehicles completely immobilised, contributing to a growing gridlock in the affected areas.
The visual of multiple high-tech SUVs sitting idle with their hazard lights blinking has become a symbol of the evening's chaos. While human drivers are navigating the dark intersections using standard "four-way stop" rules, the autonomous fleet appears to have reached a collective standstill.
This isn't just a minor inconvenience for the passengers involved; it is a significant hurdle for city recovery efforts. Every autonomous vehicle that chooses to "fail-safe" in the middle of a thoroughfare becomes a permanent obstacle that human drivers must then navigate around.
The logic programmed into these vehicles is designed to prioritising safety above all else, which usually means stopping when uncertainty is high. However, when that uncertainty is caused by a city-wide infrastructure failure, the "safety" move of stopping in the lane creates its own set of hazards.
Emergency vehicles and service crews trying to reach critical sites are now forced to weave through clusters of abandoned or stalled robotaxis. This suggests that the current "edge case" programming for autonomous fleets hasn't fully accounted for the loss of external guidance systems like networked traffic lights.
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fightin tigers
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:28 pm to fightin tigers
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:29 pm to hawgfaninc
Are there millions of waymo cars in distress?
You edited your OP....what a pussy.
You edited your OP.
...what a pussy. This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 9:32 pm
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:31 pm to hawgfaninc
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:32 pm to hawgfaninc
abdumalik abdukayumov
Posted on 12/20/25 at 9:32 pm to fightin tigers
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fightin tigers
Is this really the hill you're going to die on?
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