Sign up here.<\/a><\/p>\n Multiple videos posted on social media showed Waymo robotaxis stuck at intersections with hazard lights turned on as traffic lights stopped working due to the outage.<\/p>\n The incident highlighted concerns around the unforeseen situations that can arise for autonomous vehicle operators as they race to deploy driverless taxis across the U.S.<\/p>\n Waymo, which has a fleet of more than 2,500 vehicles operating in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Metro Phoenix, Arizona, Austin, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia, said it resumed its ride-hailing service in the San Francisco Bay Area on Sunday, a day after temporarily suspending operations.<\/p>\n “We are aware of outage and are looking into specifics,” a spokesperson for the California Public Utilities Commission said in an email to Reuters, referring to Waymo vehicles stalling. The regulator did not provide details of exactly what it was examining.<\/p>\n Waymo did not immediately respond to requests for comments on CPUC’s statement.<\/p>\n Commercializing robotaxis has been harder than expected due to the high cost of investment, tough regulations and investigations following collisions that forced many companies to shut down. But self-driving cabs have returned to the limelight after Tesla launched a service in Austin, Texas, earlier this year and Waymo picked up the pace of its expansion.<\/p>\n The CPUC, along with California’s Department of Motor Vehicles, regulates and issues permits for testing and commercial deployment of robotaxis.<\/p>\n While the Waymo Driver – the company’s fully autonomous driving system – is designed to treat non-functional signals as four-way stops, the sheer scale of the outage led to instances where vehicles remained stationary longer than usual, Waymo said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n A spokesperson said the company was integrating lessons learned from the event and was committed to ensuring its technology better adapts to traffic conditions during similar disruptions.<\/p>\n Reporting by Abhirup Roy in San Francisco, David Shepardson in Washington D.C. and Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid and Nia Williams<\/p>\n Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n Purchase Licensing Rights<\/a> Abhirup Roy is a U.S. autos correspondent based in San Francisco, covering Tesla and the wider electric and autonomous vehicle industry. He previously reported from India on global corporations, capital markets regulation, white-collar crime, and corporate litigation. 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