This is your city on driverless cars.
A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/waymo-sf-blackout-robotaxi-traffic-jams/
The fact that driverless cars kill + injure fewer people than conventional cars is a genuine plus.
It doesn't outweigh minus of private companies flooding public streets with constantly cruising vehicles that periodically cause gridlock, chaos.
Here's one Waymo messing up dozens of people's day.
There should be zero tolerance for interfering with public transport like this. Any sane community would recognize this as indefensible.
@straphanger Driverless cars just add insult to injury. The problem, particularly in the U.S., are too many cars in the cities. In Europe more and more cities disincentivise using cars in cities, by turning streets into pedestrian areas, convert streets into biking lanes, restricting parking spots and boosting tramway, bus-lanes, and metro transport.
This is what has to be done. Not adding even more cars that now even don't have drivers!
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