Got a Waymo update for ya:
Fortunately, this happened on a dead-end street. However, as you can see, there were still some vehicles that got trapped in the traffic jam.
From ABC7:
Three driverless Waymos were locked in a 'standoff' on a San Francisco residential street Saturday, frustrating human drivers who were subsequently blocked in on a dead-end road. Two of the autonomous vehicles appeared to have made contact, while a third approaching from the opposite direction froze upon sensing them, unable to navigate around each other and trapping other drivers for several minutes.
As you can see in the above clip, a Waymo tech came out and resolved the traffic jam, which lasted "several minutes."
Waymo sees this as a "teachable moment" which will help them adjust the driving capabilities of the self-driving cars.
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