Comment on A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections

• naticus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’d probably love to, but wouldn’t. Lithium fires could make a bigger problem than slowly going around them.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    police literally have a pusher on the front of their cars for shit like this

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    • naticus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, “push” rather than ram. Lithium fires take 10-30x more water than a conventional fire, something that firefighters are wary of containing.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s literally called a ram

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  • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Waymo didn’t switch to Sodium? I would have thought they’d use the newer batteries to save money.

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    • naticus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Afaik, no they haven’t. Everything I’ve seen said they’re on lithium.

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