Waymo's meet blackout, lose license to drive.

San Francisco has a blackout affecting 130,000 and it's been going on for nearly a day. There's been earthquakes too. Some reports of a substation caught fire in the Mission District, but the utility has been absolutely mum. But the bigger story is the driverless Waymo taxis are stalling out at intersections because there's no traffic lights. Yeah, this could get every driverless car taken off the road quickly! Traffic is backed up behind these Waymo's, and everything has ground to a halt.

Before 1908, there were nearly as many electric cars on the road as gas vehicles. Cities like NY and San Francisco had almost all their government fleets electrified.
Then the San Francisco earthquake struck, leaving the city without power for over a week. Most of the SF PDs cars became inoperable with no way to charge them, and electric cars quickly became obsolete.

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Before 1908, there were nearly as many electric cars on the road as gas vehicles. Cities like NY and San Francisco had almost all their government fleets electrified.
Then the San Francisco earthquake struck, leaving the city without power for over a week. Most of the SF PDs cars became inoperable with no way to charge them, and electric cars quickly became obsolete.
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the waymos didn't run out of power, they couldn't handle traffic lights being down. Just saying.

I'm averaging about 10 miles per dollar of gas for my casino trips this year. I take Premium gas at near $4/gallon, and 30 mpg for highway driving. Most of my trips are 30 miles round trip, so $3 per visit.

But my favorite bubble craps machine broke last night and I was told it will be replaced next month with individual bubble craps machines. So in the interim, I've got to find a $5 table somewhere. The next nearest place is a 140 mile round trip, or $14 + $5 tolls on some of the worst interstate roads that need repair. I may need new navigation maps for my car when they finish construction, and those cost money. They are tearing out an interstate viaduct from the inner city and making it a 30 mph business loop, complete with new traffic circles. Traffic goes where now? Maybe Google Maps on my phone is keeping up with the changes.

I just ordered a new radar detector and the accompanying dash cam. My old detector is 10 years old and the app it used has been retired and there's new speed cameras and traffic light cameras to contend with in some areas that are addressed in the new app. I've got to unbox them soon and get it installed. I've never really used the old app, but the new app can plug in via car play, so that will be different.

I've run into the internet talk to not even enter Eastern Canada with a radar detector, leave it home or it will be confiscated and the driver will be subject to immense fines, even if they find it unplugged in the trunk. 3 demerit points and a $350 fine for possession of a radar detector, and the fines could go over $1K. I mean, you could get that for going 10 mph over the speed limit too in Canada.

Waymo's robotaxis seen failing to stop for school buses at least 20 times, police say - CBS News, Dec. 8, 2025


Comment #1: WAYMO SAID "NO!" WHEN ASKED TO SUSPEND OPERATIONS.
When Austin's government asked Waymo to suspend their operations until this program error is corrected, Waymo simply refused.
That shows corporate is the bigger dog than the law!

I saw a Waymo clip of a female Passenger being harassed by a man hitting on her(He stood in front of the Waymo) and the Waymo did absolutely NOTHING to help her out! 😱😳 A human driver would have said something like,"Please stop harassing my passengers or I will be calling the police." 💡

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I saw a Waymo clip of a female Passenger being harassed by a man hitting on her(He stood in front of the Waymo) and the Waymo did absolutely NOTHING to help her out! 😱😳 A human driver would have said something like,"Please stop harassing my passengers or I will be calling the police." 💡
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I used to drive Uber and Lyft, and I would sometimes get drunk girls asking me if I have ever r. or committed similar crimes against my passengers. (Why is it that drunk girls like talking about those crimes?) I would tell them "No, not for the base rate. That costs extra."

My experience doing that showed me that as driving requires a lot of human judgment, driving rideshare requires much more so to stay out of and get out of hazardous situations, so I don't think automating this will ever work. Those Waymo cars wouldn't have lasted a month with some of the fares I've had.

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I'm averaging about 10 miles per dollar of gas for my casino trips this year. I take Premium gas at near $4/gallon, and 30 mpg for highway driving. Most of my trips are 30 miles round trip, so $3 per visit.<snip>link to original post

ChumpChange,

Math correction:

If you get 30 mpg and the roundtrip is 30 miles, then you use 1 gallon = $4, so your cost is actually $4 per trip (not $3) and your rate is actually (30 miles/gallon)/($4/gallon) = 7.5 miles per dollar of gas (not 10 mi/$).

Dog Hand

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I saw a Waymo clip of a female Passenger being harassed by a man hitting on her(He stood in front of the Waymo) and the Waymo did absolutely NOTHING to help her out! 😱😳 A human driver would have said something like,"Please stop harassing my passengers or I will be calling the police." 💡
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I used to drive Uber and Lyft, and I would sometimes get drunk girls asking me if I have ever r. or committed similar crimes against my passengers. (Why is it that drunk girls like talking about those crimes?) I would tell them "No, not for the base rate. That costs extra."

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Uber uses Tesla Fsd in those waymo areas but they have a person in front of the wheel because they haven't passed driverless car criteria yet.

If you have a driver, why bother with Fsd?

Also, have you ever gone home with a lonely girl in your Uber at night?

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Also, have you ever gone home with a lonely girl in your Uber at night?

I FIND THAT SEXIST!! It should read:

"Also, have you ever gone home with a lonely guy or girl in your Uber at night?"

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I'm averaging about 10 miles per dollar of gas for my casino trips this year. I take Premium gas at near $4/gallon, and 30 mpg for highway driving. Most of my trips are 30 miles round trip, so $3 per visit.<snip>link to original post

ChumpChange,

Math correction:

If you get 30 mpg and the roundtrip is 30 miles, then you use 1 gallon = $4, so your cost is actually $4 per trip (not $3) and your rate is actually (30 miles/gallon)/($4/gallon) = 7.5 miles per dollar of gas (not 10 mi/$).

Dog Hand
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Welp, my 140 mile round trip just got raised to $18.67 plus tolls (140/7.5). I hope my $25 match play will cover it, but I'm sure it won't over too many trips. I've been marking $3.80 or $3.90 per gallon and I guess I just accidently rounded down to $3 inexplicably. I can only get up to 3 trips per tank when I have an up to 500 mile range and I'm trying not to go much under a quarter tank. Also trying to keep under 7,500 miles per year for the car insurance. I'm really trying to win enough to get off the $5 tables and play a $10 or $15 table nearby.

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Also, have you ever gone home with a lonely girl in your Uber at night?

I FIND THAT SEXIST!! It should read:

"Also, have you ever gone home with a lonely guy or girl in your Uber at night?"
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In my case, no, there's no experimentation with the alternative lifestyles! It spreads monkeypox.

And I've never done that as a driver because some of those girls are looking to sue the company for stuff and a criminal complaint is a great way to start that process, so not only did I not screw around, I had a rule for myself that within seconds of that person getting out of my vehicle, the GPS trail shows me leaving the area. So any claim like that against me would be difficult to defend against the time and place data. That's part of the Waymo business plan I guess, being so many of the full-time rideshare drivers are from places where certain ideologies about women and mistreatment of them are culturally normative and those guys are a liability that makes investing in a robot driver to bypass them worth it. I generally used rideshare to extract a little extra value from casino trips so any trouble would make it not worth it for me.

I have however done that as a passenger with a female Lyft driver. In Vegas, of all places. I guess that's how she likes to end her shift.