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PG&E outage leaves 1/3 of San Francisco without power #### Love what you read? Love that it was free? **Mission Local will never have a paywall.** All our articles are free for everyone, always. Help us keep it that way — donate to our **end-of-year fundraiser** to make _Mission Local_**free for your neighbors**. Donate today! Waymo said Saturday that it was stopping service across San Francisco after numerous online videos showed its autonomous vehicles snarling traffic during the citywide blackout. “We have temporarily suspended our ride-hailing services given the broad power outage in San Francisco,” wrote Suzanne Philion, a company spokesperson, a little after 7 p.m. “We are focused on keeping our riders safe and ensuring emergency personnel have the clear access they need to do their work.” About a third of San Francisco lost electricity throughout the day Saturday after rolling Pacific Gas & Electric Co. blackouts hit some 125,000 homes and businesses. It was not clear when the power would be restore, but the utility said it was “possible” it would happen later Saturday. Want the latest on the Mission and San Francisco? Sign up for our **free daily newsletter** below. Sign up Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly halting Waymos in their tracks. Riders and pedestrians posted videos of Waymos stuck at intersections with long lines of drivers behind them. > Power outage took out the waymos RIP pic.twitter.com/DPte8oOGku > > — Vincent Woo (@fulligin) December 21, 2025 > The power outage in San Francisco has caused Waymo’s self-driving cars to come to a halt, leading to traffic disruptions across the city. https://t.co/8vPCrKF9ze pic.twitter.com/kXjOJ3UN4c > > — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 21, 2025 Many of the videos and images showed Waymos stuck one behind the other, with human drivers passing them by. > 6 Waymo’s parked at a broken traffic light blocking the roads. Seems like they were not trained for a power outage pic.twitter.com/9fBkoxgKwe > > — Walden (@walden_yan) December 21, 2025 > Power out in SF and the @Waymo’s are causing a MASSIVE jam in North Beach 🤣 pic.twitter.com/fuvhprlyma > > — Iago Maciel (@_iagomaciel) December 21, 2025 Groups of two, three, as many as five Waymos were stuck at different corners across the city, blinking red lights in the rain. > San Francisco, CA (DEC.20.2025) > It’s official. This is the 1,000th posted video from the Sunset Project™️. > Just over 20m views on X to date. > > This afternoon’s flurry of frozen Waymo’s across the city of San Francisco causing a historic traffic meltdown has brought about the… https://t.co/DLrvTVLKQD pic.twitter.com/SHxvg2yLQ2 > > — No Safe Words (@Cyber_Trailer) December 21, 2025 > Oh what a surprise, another traffic jam from a confused @waymo that can’t handle the power outage. Also cellular service has been pretty spotty so maybe their remote driver backups are having trouble controlling them? pic.twitter.com/BHjk3JjOzp > > — Roger (@OkGoDoIt) December 21, 2025 #### Keep Mission Local free by making a tax-deductible donation today! We have a **big year-end goal:** $300,000 by Dec. 31. It's more important than ever that _everyone_ has access to news that reports, explains and keeps them informed. Paywalls don’t serve anyone. _Your support makes it possible_ for Mission Local’s content to be **forever free — for everyone**. Donate ## Latest News ### PG&E outage leaves 1/3 of San Francisco without power ### Sprawling new seascape mural decorates S.F. waterfront ### Hundreds of asylum-seekers may be sent to Honduras, Ecuador, Uganda following S.F. immigration ruling ## Follow Us * X * Instagram * YouTube * LinkedIn * Mastodon https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-power-outage-pge-electricity/