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Waymo Halts Service in San Francisco as Cars Stall at Intersections
A fire at a PG&E substation caused outages that stalled Waymo’s driverless fleet, blocking traffic and prompting a safety suspension impacting about 30% of San Francisco’s power customers.
- On Dec. 21, 2025, Waymo suspended its fully driverless robotaxi service in San Francisco during a blackout affecting about 130,000 residents.
- PG&E said a substation fire at 8th Street and Mission Streets caused "significant and extensive" damage, triggering outages that began around 1:09 p.m. Saturday and left 124,000 of 414,000 customers—about 30%—without power.
- Videos circulating online showed multiple Waymo vehicles stalled at intersections, blocking traffic, and San Francisco resident Matt Schoolfield said, `They were just stopping in the middle of the street` near Arguello Boulevard and Geary Street around 9:45 p.m. Saturday.
- Stalled vehicles created jams across multiple neighborhoods as of Sunday morning about 21,000 customers remained without power, mainly in the Presidio, Richmond District, Golden Gate Park and downtown San Francisco.
- Waymo leads the nascent driverless industry, operating fully driverless services amid unease, while Tesla’s supervised ride-hailing lacks permits for driverless tests, Elon Musk said its Robotaxis were unaffected.
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TMZWaymo Cars Dangerously Halted During San Francisco Power Outage
San Francisco was hit with a major power outage Saturday night, turning the whole city into darkness and dangerously stalling a ton of self-driving Waymo taxis. The citywide outage forced Waymo to halt its driverless car service, stranding the…
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