Waymo service resumes after errors cause issues in San Francisco
December 22, 2025 • 1m 50s
Kelly Evans (Anchor)
00:00.110
we
MO
's
are
up
and
running
again
in
san
francisco
after
a
saturday
blackout
stopped
the
robo
taxis
in
their
tracks
throughout
the
city
deirdre
bosa
digging
into
what
it
means
for
the
robo
taxi
rollout
more
broadly
in
today's
tech
check
deirdre
Deirdre Bosa (TechCheck Anchor)
00:13.910
hey
kelly
so
let
me
just
show
you
these
are
scenes
from
saturday
night
in
san
francisco
you
might
have
seen
them
on
social
media
or
scenes
just
like
this
so
you
essentially
had
way
most
stalled
in
intersections
across
lots
of
different
streets
backing
up
traffic
across
different
Deirdre Bosa (TechCheck Anchor)
00:28.750
parts
of
the
city
now
the
vehicles
they're
designed
to
handle
dead
traffic
lights
and
keep
moving
even
without
a
wireless
signal
but
when
multiple
systems
failed
at
once
the
response
was
maximum
caution
and
that
quickly
turned
into
gridlock
now
it
all
signals
just
how
high
the
Deirdre Bosa (TechCheck Anchor)
00:42.630
bar
is
for
waymo
it's
essentially
pioneering
a
new
driverless
system
under
full
regulatory
and
public
scrutiny
so
the
tolerance
for
error
as
we've
seen
is
close
to
zero
that
kind
of
pressure
has
really
shaped
waymo
's
strategy
kelly
and
it
highlights
the
different
route
that
Deirdre Bosa (TechCheck Anchor)
00:57.270
tesla
has
gone
it
is
trying
to
build
autonomy
that
behaves
more
like
a
human
one
that
can
improvise
amid
ambiguity
like
a
blackout
for
example
tesla
under
its
technology
may
read
eye
contact
edge
forward
make
a
judgment
call
without
perfect
signals
and
that
way
may
come
with
Deirdre Bosa (TechCheck Anchor)
01:15.190
safety
trade
offs
because
it's
asking
the
system
to
make
judgment
calls
with
less
certainty
if
that
works
it
could
scale
faster
now
waymo
has
the
momentum
right
now
it's
raising
new
capital
at
a
one
hundred
billion
dollar
plus
valuation
it's
expanding
to
lots
of
new
cities
you
Deirdre Bosa (TechCheck Anchor)
01:29.990
can
see
on
this
map
here
the
company
says
that
it
is
focused
on
rapidly
integrating
the
lessons
that
were
learned
over
the
weekend
but
this
incident
really
does
put
a
spotlight
on
whether
scaling
means
careful
city
by
city
expansion
that
waymo
has
been
working
on
or
systems
more
Deirdre Bosa (TechCheck Anchor)
01:44.950
like
the
one
that
elon
musk
is
working
on
that
can
adapt
in
real
time
and
behave
more
like
a
human
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