Waymo says the San Francisco power outage overwhelmed its robotaxis at scale, creating a backlog that led to response delays.

Last weekend, a gnarly power outage in San Francisco took out a number of traffic lights, which, in turn, sent a number of self-driving Waymo robotaxis into a sort of fugue state. Instead of driving,

Tech company Waymo is making changes after its self-driving taxis blocked intersections and snarled traffic during the San Francisco power outage on Saturday. The company says it’s updating its software so the robotaxis can “navigate more decisively” in a power failure.

Here's why Waymo robotaxis freaked out during a massive San Francisco power outage, and how the company hopes to prevent a similar situation in the future.

Waymo has acknowledged that its driverless cars contributed to traffic congestion during San Francisco's massive power outage, saying the scale of the disruption overwhelmed parts of its system.

A power outage that occurred last Saturday (20) in San Francisco caused total chaos in the city, leaving around 130,000 people without electricity.

A brief traffic disruption involving autonomous vehicles in San Francisco has drawn widespread attention after a video showing several Waymo robotaxis blocking one another on a dead-end street spread rapidly online.

A substation fire knocked out traffic lights across the city, leaving autonomous cars frozen at intersections and clogging streets. When a major power outage left tens of thousands of San Francisco residents in the dark this weekend,