Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
missionlocal.org
Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.
  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    4 months ago

    How have these things not encountered out-of-service stop lights before? This seems like the kind of thing you test before you let them around people.

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      10·
      4 months ago

      I wonder if normally, such a light outage would trigger a remote operator to intervene and drive the car through the intersection, but the sheer number of disrupted lights, combined with the spotty connection due to parts of cell network going down caused the remote operator system to not be able to keep up across the city.