The death of a beloved San Francisco cat has drawn criticism from Waymo

The death of a neighborhood bodega cat named Kit Kat has rocked San Francisco’s Mission District. According to the New York Times.

After Kit Kat was run over by a Waymo robotaxi on the evening of October 27, locals created a shrine to commemorate him. The area was also decorated with competing signs, some criticizing Waymo, others noting the numerous deaths caused by human drivers.

Jackie Felder, who represents the mission district on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, I introduced Kit Kat While defending a proposed city resolution calling on the state to let local voters decide whether self-driving cars can operate in their neighborhoods.

“A human driver can be held accountable, they can jump out, they can apologize, they can be tracked down by the police if it’s a hit-and-run,” Felder told the Times. “There is no one to hold accountable here.”

Waymo, whose CEO recently engaged He spoke at Disrupt about the importance of safetydescribed the incident as an accident in which “a cat lunged under our car as it was driving away.” The company said it sends its “deepest condolences to the cat’s owner and the community who knew and loved him.”