Waymo declined to reveal how many of its robocars stalled during last month’s blackout when questioned Friday at a meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission, the agency that regulates autonomous vehicles.
Waymo representative Jack Stoddard said that providing a number, when combined with publicly available information, would reveal trade secrets about the fleet and its deployment.
That answer did not satisfy the commission. “That’s going to be an issue,” said Judge Robert Mason, who presided over the meeting. Matthew Baker was the only one of the five commissioners to attend the meeting in person…