{"id":34049,"date":"2025-11-17T04:34:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=34049"},"modified":"2025-11-17T04:34:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:34:01","slug":"beloved-sf-cats-death-fuels-waymo-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=34049","title":{"rendered":"Beloved SF cat\u2019s death fuels Waymo criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The death of a neighborhood bodega cat named Kit Kat has shaken San Francisco\u2019s Mission District, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission District on SF\u2019s 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA human driver can be held accountable, can hop out, say sorry, can be tracked down by police if it\u2019s a hit-and-run,\u201d Fielder told the Times. \u201cHere, there is no one to hold accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waymo, whose co-CEO recently spoke at Disrupt about the importance of safety, described the incident as one where a cat \u201cdarted under our vehicle as it was pulling away.\u201d The company said it sends \u201cour deepest sympathies to the cat\u2019s owner and the community who knew and loved him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of a neighborhood bodega cat named Kit Kat has shaken San Francisco\u2019s 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","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[15742,6608,6948,376,5238,9134],"class_list":{"0":"post-34049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-beloved","9":"tag-cats","10":"tag-criticism","11":"tag-death","12":"tag-fuels","13":"tag-waymo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}