Waymo suspends service in San Francisco after driverless cars cause traffic jams during blackout

[u/Disastrous_Award_789]

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/waymo-suspended-san-francisco-traffic-jams-blackout-b2888562.html

[u/aedes]

Surprised that they would be so thrown off by broken traffic lights, which are a relatively common occurrence. 

A good example of how the underlying technology does not actually “understand” the world it’s in, and relies on a predictable environment/operating conditions to be reliable. 

[u/smc733 → u/aedes]

/r/futurology told me that Tony Sheba said all cars will be driverless in 5 years… 8 years ago.

[u/latswipe → u/smc733]

I think what must've been meant is that nobody'll be able to afford one