As seen online:
“The company said the confirmation processes its vehicles follow were established during early deployment and that it was now refining them to match its current scale. Waymo is implementing fleet-wide updates that provide vehicles with "specific power outage context, allowing it to navigate more decisively." Both Cummings and Koopman said robotaxi operators should face additional permitting requirements once their fleets grow beyond a certain size to ensure that they have adequate capabilities to deal with large-scale failures. "If this had been an earthquake, it would have been a problem," Koopman said. "This is just a shot across the bow."”
— from Waymo's San Francisco outage raises doubts over robotaxi readiness during crises | Reuters as of 29 December 2025