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3:53 PM PT -- A Waymo spokesperson tells TMZ ... “We are resuming ride-hailing service in the San Francisco Bay Area. Yesterday’s power outage was a widespread event that caused gridlock across San Francisco, with non-functioning traffic signals and transit disruptions. While the failure of the utility infrastructure was significant, we are committed to ensuring our technology adjusts to traffic flow during such events.

“Throughout the outage, we closely coordinated with San Francisco city officials. We are focused on rapidly integrating the lessons learned from this event, and are committed to earning and maintaining the trust of the communities we serve every day.”

San Francisco was hit with a major power outage Saturday night, turning the whole city into darkness and dangerously stalling a ton of self-driving Waymo taxis.

The citywide outage forced Waymo to halt its driverless car service, stranding the autonomous vehicles in the middle of the streets and intersections, according to pedestrians posting videos on X Saturday.

A Waymo spokesperson tells TMZ that ride-hailing services have been "temporarily suspended" due to the outage. They added, "Our teams are working diligently and in close coordination with city officials to monitor infrastructure stability, and we are hopeful to bring our services back online soon.”

SFGATE reports the company had to shut down its operation at around 8 p.m. due to the cars being unable to operate without traffic signals.

According to online footage, at least four Waymo vehicles were parked in the middle of an intersection with their hazards on, creating a large traffic jam at the busy intersection in the North Beach neighborhood.

SFGATE reports thousands of San Franciscans still remain without power on Sunday morning, as PG&E crews continue to work to restore electricity after a now nearly day-long outage.

Kata Hay, a former contestant on "The Voice," has been arrested on a vehicular homicide warrant ... TMZ has learned.

The Goodlettsville Police Department in Tennessee tells TMZ she had a warrant out of Davidson County, TN ... and was picked up by authorities in Oklahoma early Wednesday morning. The Osage County Sheriff's Office in OK tells TMZ a deputy from their department arrested her in a residence in the county on the active Tennessee warrant.

She's currently being held at the Osage County Jail in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, and the sheriff's office tells us she will go before a district court judge Monday to sign a waiver of extradition.

Terrifying video shows a Mercedes-Benz propelling over traffic in Romania before crashing into a pole — and the driver somehow survived with just a few broken bones.

The CCTV footage captured a portion of the car wreck last Wednesday in Oradea, a city in northwest Romania, and the dramatic video is now making the rounds in the international media.

As you can see ... everything seems normal at first as a bus and several cars drive toward a roundabout. Suddenly, the Mercedes launches through the air over the vehicles, nearly clipping the roof of the bus before reportedly crashing into a utility pole near a gas station.

President Donald Trump announced his approval of "tiny cars" to be built in the United States on Truth Social on Friday.

POTUS described the vehicles as the "cars of the very near future" and wrote car manufacturers had been trying to gain approval to start producing the cars for an extended period of time.

47 added the vehicles were "amazing" and called for manufacturers to begin building the cars "now."

Justin Bieber’s ride from his smash-hit "Peaches" music video -- the 1968 Cadillac Coupe DeVille -- is hittin' the auction block ... and it sure ain’t cheap.

The iconic whip is up on Gotta Have Rock & Roll with a minimum bid of $110K -- and the auction runs till Dec. 5 ... peachy perfect if your wallet can keep up!

The car was featured all over Bieber's vid where he drove it and danced on it -- racking up 826M views and almost 2B streams. Impressive.

Justin Bieber came through for a stranger who desperately needed a break ... pulling over to the side of the road to help a man who appeared to be stranded after his car broke down.

In a now-viral video, the man records himself venting about his rough patch ... saying he’s been “trying so hard in life” and he’s just trying to “make it like everyone else” after moving to a big city.

His red car is seen on the shoulder with its hood popped as traffic whizzes by. It's unclear where and when this all went down ... the video was first posted 6 days ago.

Cristiano Ronaldo has a garage that would make a car museum drool ... but the international soccer superstar recently revealed his luxury whips are just for show -- 'cause he doesn't drive them!!

The Al-Nassr striker explained his stance on transportation in an interview on Piers Morgan's "Uncensored" this week ... claiming spending millions and millions on high-end vehicles is an "investment" -- just like an art collection or other interests.

When asked if he ever takes them for a spin, CR7 said that's not the point.

David "Heavy D" Sparks -- one of the two stars of "The Diesel Brothers" -- has been arrested following a bench warrant that was issued October 2 ... TMZ has learned.

This all stems from a failure to pay fees owed in connection with a Clean Air Act lawsuit from a plaintiff listed as Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment.

The 40-year-old Sparks reportedly owes $843,602.23 in costs that they've allegedly failed to pay back in the course of over three years.

A private eye is revealing more details in the case of missing California teen Celeste Rivas -- whose dismembered body was found in a car owned by singer D4vd earlier this month -- and we're getting a good look at the Tesla as police first encountered it.

Licensed private investigator Steve Fischer just posted some of his legwork in the case ... he tracked down photos of the car before it was impounded and the CHP incident report responding to the abandoned car.

You'll recall, the car was reported as abandoned on a Hollywood Hills street earlier this month, near the house the singer had been renting.

Los Angeles authorities are inching closer to identifying the badly decomposed body found chopped up inside a Tesla registered to singer D4vd.

The LA County Medical Examiner issued an online report Tuesday night, listing the gender of the victim as a female who is about 5-foot-1 and 71 pounds. The M.E. says she has wavy black hair with a tattoo on her right index finger that reads, "Shhh..."

When her corpse was discovered, she was wearing a tube top and black leggings with two pieces of jewelry -- a metal stud earring and a metal chain bracelet in the shape of a "W."

The show goes on for D4vd ... the singer just took the stage for a scheduled concert in Minnesota, one day after cops found a dismembered body in the trunk of his Tesla in Hollywood.

D4vd is performing right now at The Fillmore Minneapolis ... the latest stop on his world tour.

The concert is moving forward as a death investigation is underway in Los Angeles ... cops were called to a Hollywood impound Monday for a report of foul odor coming from a Tesla, and police found human remains.

Expect T-Pain to turn heads even more than usual around Atlanta ... thanks to his new custom-built Alpha Ford Raptor -- courtesy of the guys from Truck Dynasty!!!

Jerry Eisenband from the new Discovery series "Truck Dynasty" tells TMZ Hip Hop, T-Pain traded in the Ford Bronco they previously designed for him, and took home a sleek gray and fire-red 2024 Ford Raptor R.

Bryson DeChambeau thought the hardest part of his Bentley contest would be knocking down the nearly impossible golf shot ... but giving away the super expensive luxury car also proved challenging thanks to HUGE fan interest!

In other words, we're told so many people attempted to enter the contest, the website actually crashed.

If you're a fan of the 31-year-old star golfer, you've likely seen him documenting the nearly two-week quest to chip a ping pong ball from the ground floor and put it in a plastic shot glass on the second story ... dubbed the Shot Cup Giveaway Challenge.

Kid Cudi just announced he's stepping back from making music after the lowest chart debut of his career -- but rapper Consequence DGAF and is calling out his former GOOD Music collaborator in defense of Kanye West and all things integrity!!!

On Tuesday, Consequence previewed his new track featuring footage of Kid Cudi leaving Diddy's RICO trial from May, after The Man on the Moon testified for his ex-girlfriend Cassie.

Consequence raps on the track "We about to blow like Kid Cudi's car ..." a reference to the Porsche he suspected Diddy had bombed with a Molotov cocktail after the love triangle started to become a pair.

Myles Garrett is clearly in the Browns' dog house -- Cleveland head coach Kevin Stefanski addressed his superstar defensive end's recent speeding incident with the media on Wednesday ... calling the situation "extremely disappointing."

The sixth-year coach met with reporters at joint practice with the Philadelphia Eagles ... and was asked how he felt about the former Defensive Player of the Year getting pulled over for allegedly driving 100 MPH in a 60 zone -- given his documented history of going fast behind the wheel.

Stefanski didn't mince his words ... revealing the team met with the 29-year-old to discuss the matter.