Comment on A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections
unphazed@lemmy.world 4 days agoPolice and firefighters would love to have an excuse to go demolition derby on these things I bet.
Comment on A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections
unphazed@lemmy.world 4 days agoPolice and firefighters would love to have an excuse to go demolition derby on these things I bet.
naticus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They’d probably love to, but wouldn’t. Lithium fires could make a bigger problem than slowly going around them.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
police literally have a pusher on the front of their cars for shit like this
naticus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, “push” rather than ram. Lithium fires take 10-30x more water than a conventional fire, something that firefighters are wary of containing.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s literally called a ram
unphazed@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Waymo didn’t switch to Sodium? I would have thought they’d use the newer batteries to save money.
naticus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Afaik, no they haven’t. Everything I’ve seen said they’re on lithium.