S1 · 10/27
2025 ·
Waymo · San Francisco, CA, USA
| Company | Waymo |
| Category | av trucking |
| Type | crash |
| Date | 10/27 2025 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Severity | S1 (near-miss / disclosed vulnerability) |
| Scale | 1 animal killed |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | New York Post / The Guardian |
A Waymo autonomous vehicle struck and killed a well-known neighborhood cat outside a San Francisco grocery store, prompting community backlash.