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Waymo Autonomous Vehicle Reportedly Ran Over and Killed a Cat in San Francisco
- Occurred
- Oct 27, 2025
- Published
- Dec 5, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Waymo autonomous taxi in San Francisco's Mission District reportedly ran over a well-known neighborhood cat, Kit Kat. The vehicle was reportedly pulling away from a pickup when the cat darted under it, according to Waymo. Local residents reportedly attempted to intervene, and a bartender transported the injured cat to an emergency clinic, where it later died.
Developers
- Waymo
Deployers
- Waymo
Harmed parties
- Kit Kat
- General public of San Francisco
- Animal life
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves an autonomous vehicle causing harm to an animal, fitting the autonomous category with medium severity due to animal death.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8