@Viss

My arteries hardened a little just scrolling by the picture.

@CavedaleRhones

❤️

@hrbrmstr

Really, DCFC?

@ai6yr

Ah well this will be fun for me personally if the tornado warning persists over the coastal range. 😬

@CavedaleRhones

😍

@dplattsf

We're the human rider, they are the programmable robots.

You would think there would be some built in logic where if the rider opened the trunk at the beginning of the ride, the trunk should be opened again (when the rider indicates) at the end of the ride.

And for that trunk rule to be overidden only by a manual emergency action. (e.g. the car ends up at a not safe dropoff, etc.)

@dplattsf

I'm so so sorry it happened to you! (Now I don't feel as bad about being paranoid when I have extra bags with me.)

Based on my experience, it feels like their expected UX is for the "Open Trunk" button to be pushed /BEFORE/ exiting the vehicle and/or closing the passenger doors.

My lights just blinked...

Lol, nothing like hearing nearby electric transformers blowing up on Christmas Eve. (A whole tract went out just up the street.) Poor Santa.

Amidst the wind and rain, I heard a few loud booms nearby. Wondering if some local transformers blew. I still have power (so far).

@soatok

If anyone is thinking about smol models, one should go sniff around the Hugging Face Smol Models Research first. https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB

Having said that though, I know some like the idea of a smol model, but then they get annoyed when the usability tradeoff is lack of general knowledge/needing to do tool use. Witness the reception of OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b for example.

Also, I forgot to add this part of their initial response to the events:

> As the outage persisted and City officials urged residents to stay off the streets to prioritize first responders, we temporarily paused our service in the area. We directed our fleet to pull over and park appropriately so we could return vehicles to our depots in waves. This ensured we did not further add to the congestion or obstruct emergency vehicles during the peak of the recovery effort.

> Expanding our first responder engagement: To date, we’ve trained more than 25,000 first responders in the U.S. and around the world on how to interact with Waymo. As we discover learnings from this and other widespread events, we’ll continue updating our first responder training.

Expanding our first responder engagement: To date, we’ve trained more than 25,000 first responders in the U.S. and around the world on how to interact with Waymo. As we discover learnings from this and other widespread events, we’ll continue updating our first responder training.

> Updating our emergency preparedness and response: We will improve our emergency response protocols, incorporating lessons from this event. In San Francisco, we’ll continue to coordinate with Mayor Lurie’s team to identify areas of greater collaboration in our existing emergency preparedness plans.

> Here are some of the immediate steps we’re taking:

Integrating more information about outages: While our Driver already handles dark traffic signals as four-way stops, we are now rolling out fleet-wide updates that give our vehicles even more context about regional outages, allowing them to navigate these intersections more decisively.

> While the Waymo Driver is designed to handle dark traffic signals as four-way stops, it may occasionally request a confirmation check to ensure it makes the safest choice. While we successfully traversed more than 7,000 dark signals on Saturday, the outage created a concentrated spike in these requests. This created a backlog that, in some cases, led to response delays contributing to congestion on already-overwhelmed streets.

Waymo just published a statement about the weekend's service disruption in San Francisco.

#sf #sfba #SanFrancisco #outage #Waymo

https://waymo.com/blog/2025/12/autonomously-navigating-the-real-world

@riversaredamp

👀 The blue painting.

@carnage4life

Selection bias is a vaaaaaaaaaaaaaast understatement. But on the model front, here's their available models. https://openrouter.ai/models