{"id":105163,"date":"2025-12-22T18:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/105163\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:20:07","slug":"waymo-resumes-san-francisco-service-after-power-outage-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/105163\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo resumes San Francisco service after power outage pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dec 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Alphabet unit Waymo said on Monday it resumed \u200bits ride-hailing service in the San \u200cFrancisco Bay Area on Sunday, a day \u200cafter temporarily suspending operations due to a widespread power outage that snarled traffic and gridlocked parts of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u2060company paused service \u200cSaturday evening following a fire at a PG&amp;E substation that \u200dknocked out power to roughly one-third of the city, affecting about 130,000 residents and \u200bforcing some businesses to close \u200ctemporarily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Waymo said most trips already underway ended normally before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We are focused on rapidly integrating the lessons learned from \u2060this event, and are \u200bcommitted to earning and \u200bmaintaining the trust of the communities we serve every day,\u201d a \u200dWaymo \u2060spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Waymo said it was committed to ensuring its technology better adapts \u2060to traffic conditions during similar disruptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by \u200cHarshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing \u200cby Tasim Zahid)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Alphabet unit Waymo said on Monday it resumed \u200bits ride-hailing service in the San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3643,101,103,102,4747,104,106,105,5916,5987],"class_list":{"0":"post-105163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-power-outage","9":"tag-san-francisco","10":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","11":"tag-san-francisco-news","12":"tag-service","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news","16":"tag-the-san-francisco-bay-area","17":"tag-waymo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}