A third of San Francisco lost power over the weekend, causing traffic chaos.

A third of San Francisco lost power over the weekend, causing traffic chaos.

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    262·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      Google. They just hid Waymo under the Alphabet hat.

      And everyone knows how good Google products work offline.

    • assembly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      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.

  • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    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.