For years, Silicon Valley executives have assured Americans that autonomous vehicles are safer, smarter, and more reliable than human drivers. Tech elites promised that artificial intelligence could react faster, think clearer, and outperform ordinary people behind the wheel.
Last weekend, San Francisco put that promise to the test.
The results were disastrous.
A widespread power outage revealed a frightening truth about robotaxis that no glossy tech presentation could hide.
Waymo Vehicles Locked Up as the City Went Dark
On Saturday afternoon, a fire at a Pacific Gas and Electric substation knocked out electricity across large parts of San Francisco. Traffic lights shut down. Streets descended into confusion. At the peak of the outage, more than 130,000 customers were without power.
That was the moment Waymo’s driverless fleet simply stopped functioning.
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