{"id":200714,"date":"2026-03-02T16:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200714\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:37:07","slug":"waymo-to-report-on-mass-stranding-event-during-sf-december-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200714\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo to Report on Mass Stranding Event During SF December Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the December blog post, Waymo representatives wrote, \u201cthe scale of the outage and the sheer number of disabled traffic lights were the primary contributors to city-wide gridlock,\u201d adding that it has taken steps to improve the company\u2019s operations during future blackouts by updating software to respond to outages and changing the company\u2019s emergency preparedness and response policies.<\/p>\n

Mahmood said during the December outage, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie had to personally call company leaders to get them to move the cars and allow emergency vehicles to access the burning substation.<\/p>\n

While regulation of Waymo is largely handled at the state level, out of the jurisdiction of the city\u2019s Board of Supervisors, Mahmood said the purpose of the informational hearing is to hold Waymo publicly accountable.<\/p>\n

He added that at a recent meeting<\/a> meant to hold PG&E to account for the substation fire and resulting power outage, he revealed previously undisclosed facts about the company\u2019s response and has allowed the city to put pressure on the utility to make changes to its protocols.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u200aWe need to make sure that there is a precedent for good, sustainable emergency vehicle response, and what we saw in December [from Waymo] was not a good response,\u201d Mahmood said. \u201cThe purpose of this hearing is to also to set an example to other companies, that if they want to do business in San Francisco, they have to make sure that they have the right procedures in place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the December blog post, Waymo representatives wrote, \u201cthe scale of the outage and the sheer number of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-200714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200714","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=200714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}