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 embellished 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 resolve whether or not driverless automobiles can function of their neighborhoods.
“A human driver may be held accountable, can hop out, apologize, may be tracked down by police if it’s a hit-and-run,” Fielder informed the Occasions. “Right here, there is no such thing as a one to carry accountable.”
Waymo, whose co-CEO lately spoke at Disrupt concerning the significance of security, described the incident as one the place a cat “darted underneath 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.”
