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Ethan Baron @ Silicon Valley · today 07:41 EDT

Waymo robotaxis blink out and block traffic in blackout — What happens in the next emergency?

But Saturday's dystopian scenes of robot cars parked in thoroughfares with hazard lights flashing and angry motorists honking represent the broadest-scale malfunction of the technology since the first stages of their rollout.

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