Waymos blockierte Straßen und verursachte Chaos während eines Stromausfalls in San Francisco
https://apnews.com/article/waymo-cars-san-francisco-power-outage-traffic-81e6a00aa2be6b804fe0bdfbcf07401f
Waymos blockierte Straßen und verursachte Chaos während eines Stromausfalls in San Francisco
https://apnews.com/article/waymo-cars-san-francisco-power-outage-traffic-81e6a00aa2be6b804fe0bdfbcf07401f
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Blackouts caused communication towers to go down which froze up all the driverless cars?
Nah. The cars ran into a bunch of non-functioning stoplights. They knew it wasn’t “normal” so they pulled over and called in to report that there was a problem.
*That* overwhelmed Waymo and they couldn’t get enough people to tell the cars to return to base. They have hundreds are cars on the road so as they ran into non-working lights, they kept pulling over, needing more human interaction.
It wasn’t an issue with the cars themselves, but an inability to manage the cars at a fast enough pace to clear traffic.
People forget that traffic lights going out already causes confusion for human drivers. Autonomy just exposes it more visibly.
Was also raining that day too. Was dark and empty when I was driving to work in the evening. Saw some Waymos sit at stop lights and such. Took more time but it eventually treated it like a stop sign.
Interestingly enough, the Waymos were a lot faster at navigating the blacked out streets if there were more cars around.