The demise of a neighborhood bodega cat named Package Kat has shaken San Francisco’s Mission District, in accordance with The New York Instances.
After Package 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, introduced up Package 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 may be held accountable, can hop out, ask for forgiveness, may 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 lately spoke at Disrupt in regards to 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 liked him.”