Waymo had a massive outage in San Francisco earlier this month after a power outage took out traffic lights, stranding the robotaxis in the middle of intersections. Traffic lanes and crosswalks were blocked by frozen autonomous vehicles, some multiple cars deep.
It was what people in tech call an edge case; something that happens rarely. However, one problem shouldn’t paralyze the transportation and emergency services infrastructure of a city with 800,000 people. New Year’s Eve…
