Overview
- Up to 130,000 customers lost electricity Saturday after a reported fire at an electrical station triggered a citywide blackout.
- Social-media videos showed dozens of Waymo cars stopped in live lanes and at darkened intersections, with some riders still inside.
- Waymo paused on-demand rides during the outage and said it restarted operations Sunday as power was restored in most areas.
- Elon Musk claimed on X that Tesla robotaxis were unaffected, though Tesla does not operate fully driverless taxi service in San Francisco.
- The incident prompted fresh questions from industry observers about autonomous vehicle performance in rapidly changing or degraded conditions.