The dying of a neighborhood bodega cat named Equipment Kat has shaken San Francisco’s Mission District, according to The New York Times.
After Equipment Kat was run over by a Waymo robotaxi on the night of October 27, locals created a shrine to memorialize him. The realm has additionally been adorned with competing indicators, some criticizing Waymo, others noting the various deaths attributable to human drivers.
Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission District on SF’s Board of Supervisors, brought up Kit Kat whereas making the case for a proposed metropolis decision that calls on the state to permit native voters to determine whether or not driverless vehicles can function of their neighborhoods.
“A human driver could be held accountable, can hop out, make an apology, could be tracked down by police if it’s a hit-and-run,” Fielder advised the Instances. “Right here, there isn’t any one to carry accountable.”
Waymo, whose co-CEO not too long ago spoke at Disrupt in regards to the significance of security, described the incident as one the place a cat “darted beneath our automobile because it was pulling away.” The corporate mentioned it sends “our deepest sympathies to the cat’s proprietor and the neighborhood who knew and beloved him.”
