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News: Waymo robot taxis fail to manage SF power outage causing widespread gridlock

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Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams

Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.

The question we should be asking is what are the penalties for creating such a citywide menace?

Hate hate hate AI with the passion of 1000 burning suns. Used to go to bed by thinking about some moon, planet or other astronomy subject and searching for a good lecture by typing the name of the subject followed by the word 'lecture'. Usually there were a couple short basic videos, but also experts with hour plus long technical presentations. Those are all gone now. Replaced by absurd AI bullshit slop videos that can't even pronounce technical terms correctly. It's all garbage.

Simply remarkable fall off in tourism to the United States. "The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled." source: Anonymous on Bluesky