{"id":403745,"date":"2026-07-18T19:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403745\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:47:08","slug":"waymo-appears-to-pause-san-francisco-service-amidst-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403745\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo appears to pause San Francisco service amidst power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waymo said it\u2019s making \u201ctemporary adjustments\u201d to its robotaxi service in San Francisco amidst a power outage that appears to have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/bayarea\/article\/sf-outage-leaves-roughly-7k-pg-e-customers-22350686.php\" target=\"_blank\">affected around 7,000 PG&amp;E customers<\/a> in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a screenshot <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ethanmckanna\/status\/2078546210529677784?s=46&amp;t=dDcpMIMYg6fdPePSTT9k6w\">posted on social media<\/a>, Waymo is telling SF customers that service is \u201ctemporarily paused\u201d and that \u201cfreeway routes are unavailable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When TechCrunch reached out to the Alphabet-owned company for comment, a spokesperson said in a statement, \u201cWe are making temporary adjustments to our service while we monitor local conditions. We know riders depend on us, and we will return to normal operations as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn\u2019t the first time power outages have caused issues for Waymo. A number of Waymo vehicles <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/12\/21\/waymo-suspends-service-in-san-francisco-as-robotaxis-stall-during-blackout\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stalled on city streets during a blackout in December<\/a>, and a similar incident paralyzed traffic during a Golden Gate Bridge fireworks show on the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/07\/16\/san-francisco-mayor-pushes-for-tougher-rules-after-the-waymo-traffic-fiasco\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called for tougher state regulations<\/a> to \u201cadequately address how autonomous vehicles operate during major incidents, planned or not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waymo said it\u2019s making \u201ctemporary adjustments\u201d to its robotaxi service in San Francisco amidst a power outage that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,5987],"class_list":["post-403745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-waymo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403745","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=403745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}