Waymo Madness in SF! Why robotaxis clogged the streets | E2227

This is uh, I don't think exactly what Waymo was promising the world. And as I was going to Sachs's holiday party, there were Waymo's all over the place. It was nuts. Yeah, so the power went out in San Francisco at about 1 p.m. on Saturday for about 130,000 customers, Jason.

The power goes out sometimes. Not a big deal if you're just sitting in your apartment, light a candle, you'll survive. But it turns out if you are a Waymo, self-driving car, and you don't have traffic lights anymore, well, Jason, I'll show you what happens. We have Waymo's literally just stopped in intersections. They are blocking traffic.

There were like four of them, five-five of them, it looks like, in that one intersection in three different lanes. The the parking lane on the right. the middle lane and the left lane, and then there's one in the intersection past the crosswalk. These are the edge cases that will be quickly solved. You can be sure that there's an emergency meeting going on of what do we do when This Week in Startups is brought to you by Uber AI Solutions.

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