Waymo says San Francisco service has resumed after one-hour pause
THE SO WHAT
A city-scale AV service pausing for a power outage underscores that autonomy is only as reliable as the grid and comms behind it. If your product depends on always-on autonomy, you now have to model municipal infrastructure failures as a first-class reliability risk.
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