San Franciscans just encountered The Night of the AI Dead. If they weren't already afraid of getting into the back seat of a vehicle with no driver, what happened when the power went out surely must have them reconsidering.

No, it wasn't a Hollywood film, it was (ir)reality.

We already knew that Way More Taxis will go catatonic if you place a traffic cone in front of their cameras (it's a fun pastime in Frisco to carry a small traffic cone with you and put it on the hood of any empty Way More taxi you see). They also seem to like to pass school buses that have flashing lights active. Now we find out that they freeze when traffic signals go blank. At least they turn on their flashers so that others know they're busy thinking about things.

I suppose this is all better than racing into fire trucks, which apparently is one of the Musky ways of driving by AI. Still, I'm waiting for the MAWM organization to appear (that would be Mothers Against Way More).

Maybe we need to stop putting the I in AI, and just call it A. Of course, that would make us all sound like Canadians, eh?