> Navigating an event of this magnitude presented a unique challenge for autonomous technology. 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.
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> My ad hoc shopping app is not exactly groundbreaking. What’s interesting is that I could summon exactly what I wanted into existence faster and with much less effort than finding a pre-built solution…or than doing my task without software, which is my usual go-to approach.
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