"It was a self-driving car dragging a pedestrian 20 feet that set off the chain of events that led to the dissolving of the autonomous car company Cruise last year. Could the mere incident of a Waymo running over and killing a cat similarly hurt the Google-owned robotaxi company Waymo, or at least, tighten regulations on the self-driving car company?"
""If I were the Waymo PR team, I would be hoping that this whole KitKat thing just dies and that's not happening," Fielder said in a social media video. "Waymo thinks that they can just sweep this under the rug and we will all forget, but here in Mission, we will never forget our sweet KitKat. We will always put community before tech oligarchs and California should do the same.""
Waymo admitted one of its autonomous vehicles ran over a bodega cat named KitKat after the cat darted beneath the vehicle during a collision Monday night. District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder organized a noon rally outside Randa's (3131 16th Street) to honor the cat and vowed to introduce legislation giving local regulators authority over how autonomous vehicles operate. Currently the California Department of Motor Vehicles and the California Public Utilities Commission regulate self-driving cars, leaving municipalities without control. Fielder plans to urge the state legislature and governor to grant local regulatory power. The incident recalls a prior self-driving collision that helped precipitate Cruise's dissolution and raises prospects of tighter oversight for Waymo.
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