> **RETRACTED** · 2024-11-25
> Retracted in full. Santa Monica Public Works confirmed the outage was caused by a scheduled grid maintenance window, not by any robot. The originally-reported Acme R1 unit was inactive during the outage window. The claim is no longer asserted; the page remains to record the retraction.

_Incident · Malfunction · retracted_

# Acme R1 implicated in Santa Monica traffic-signal outage

_Original claim above is no longer asserted. See the retraction notice for context._

Canonical ID: `03d0f174-f547-458c-9447-427e57cb7c87`

- **Occurred:** 2024-11-21
- **Kind:** `malfunction`
- **Status (derived):** retracted
- **Deployment:** [R1 at Santa Monica](/deployments/acme-r1-1779599357895.md) — id `8f4cf061-3b0b-4dc0-b879-bc61c998a0b6`
- **Model:** [R1](/robots/acme-r1.md) — id `c68d1dad-8c7e-4f01-a47e-327a59dde738`
- **Company:** [Acme Robotics](/companies/acme-robotics.md) — id `de0ef457-4ae5-4173-971f-7435bf48ffd7`

Initial reporting attributed a 22-minute traffic-signal outage at Wilshire and 14th to interference from an Acme R1 unit operating nearby on November 21, 2024.

## Sources (1)

1. **Santa Monica Daily Press** · https://example.invalid/news/2024/11/santa-monica-signal-outage · 2024-11-22

## Status history

- **retracted** · 2024-11-25 · editor:deploy-desk
    - Retracted in full. Santa Monica Public Works confirmed the outage was caused by a scheduled grid maintenance window, not by any robot. The originally-reported Acme R1 unit was inactive during the outage window. The claim is no longer asserted; the page remains to record the retraction.

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