A third of San Francisco lost power over the weekend, causing traffic chaos.
Catoblepas - 2day
And people wonder why I don’t trust the safety of driverless cars run by a company that never thought to account for power outages.
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skuzz @discuss.tchncs.de - 1day
Google. They just hid Waymo under the Alphabet hat.
And everyone knows how good Google products work offline.
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Eager Eagle - 2day
just stopping is not that bad of an outcome if I'm being honest. Pulling over would be better.
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assembly @lemmy.world - 1day
I’ve watched Seattle drivers do worse in a power outage so just stopping was probably safer. The other side of the coin is that everyone gets trapped on the road during an outage as stopped cars block everything.
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[deleted] - 1day
How hard is it to automate treating a non-working traffic light as a stop sign?
Seriously, this is one if the few things I expected autonomous driving to do better than humans.
technocrit in fuckcars @lemmy.world
Power outage paralyzes Waymo robotaxis when traffic lights go out
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/12/power-outage-paralyzes-waymo-robotaxis-when-traffic-lights-go-out/And people wonder why I don’t trust the safety of driverless cars run by a company that never thought to account for power outages.
Google. They just hid Waymo under the Alphabet hat.
And everyone knows how good Google products work offline.
just stopping is not that bad of an outcome if I'm being honest. Pulling over would be better.
I’ve watched Seattle drivers do worse in a power outage so just stopping was probably safer. The other side of the coin is that everyone gets trapped on the road during an outage as stopped cars block everything.
How hard is it to automate treating a non-working traffic light as a stop sign?
Seriously, this is one if the few things I expected autonomous driving to do better than humans.
"we don't engineer for edge cases"