{"id":10657,"date":"2025-11-17T00:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/beloved-sf-cats-death-fuels-waymo-criticism\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T00:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:27:03","slug":"beloved-sf-cats-death-fuels-waymo-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/beloved-sf-cats-death-fuels-waymo-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved SF cat\u2019s death fuels Waymo criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The death of a neighborhood bodega cat named Kit Kat has shaken San Francisco’s Mission District, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n

After Kit Kat was run over by a Waymo robotaxi on the evening of October 27, locals created a shrine to memorialize him. The area has also been decorated with competing signs, some criticizing Waymo, others noting the many deaths caused by human drivers.<\/p>\n

Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission District on SF’s Board of Supervisors, brought up Kit Kat while making the case for a proposed city resolution that calls on the state to allow local voters to decide whether driverless cars can operate in their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

“A human driver can be held accountable, can hop out, say sorry, can be tracked down by police if it’s a hit-and-run,” Fielder told the Times. “Here, there is no one to hold accountable.”<\/p>\n

Waymo, whose co-CEO recently spoke at Disrupt about the importance of safety, described the incident as one where a cat “darted under our vehicle as it was pulling away.” The company said it sends “our deepest sympathies to the cat’s owner and the community who knew and loved him.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The death of a neighborhood bodega cat named Kit Kat has shaken 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 memorialize him. The area has also been decorated with competing signs, some…<\/p>\n

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