{"id":38196,"date":"2025-12-21T23:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/mass-power-outages-affect-130000-in-san-francisco-and-disrupt-traffic\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:59:42","slug":"mass-power-outages-affect-130000-in-san-francisco-and-disrupt-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/mass-power-outages-affect-130000-in-san-francisco-and-disrupt-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass power outages affect 130,000 in San Francisco and disrupt traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic signals failed in large portions of the California city while Waymo robotaxis stopped in streets and intersections<\/p>\n<p>A widespread power failure plunged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/san-francisco\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a> into darkness on Saturday night, disrupting traffic citywide and forcing numerous self-driving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/waymo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Waymo<\/a> taxis to stop abruptly in the middle of streets and intersections.<\/p>\n<p>As electricity went out across large portions of the city, traffic signals failed, leaving autonomous vehicles unable to operate as normal. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jason\/status\/2002583426067804582?\" rel=\"nofollow\">Photos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhereIsMishaal\/status\/2002587200681390318\" rel=\"nofollow\">videos<\/a> shared by users on X showed Waymo robotaxis frozen in place, backing up traffic and creating hazardous conditions for other drivers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/21\/power-outages-san-francisco-traffic-waymo-taxis-traffic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic signals failed in large portions of the California city while Waymo robotaxis stopped in streets and intersections A widespread power failure plunged San Francisco into darkness on Saturday night, disrupting traffic citywide and forcing numerous self-driving Waymo taxis to stop abruptly in the middle of streets and intersections. As electricity went out across large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 18:24:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}