S1 · 10/27
2025 ·
Waymo (Alphabet) · San Francisco, CA, USA
| Company | Waymo (Alphabet) |
| Category | other |
| Type | malfunction |
| Date | 10/27 2025 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Severity | S1 (near-miss / disclosed vulnerability) |
| Scale | - |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | Golem.de |
A Waymo autonomous robotaxi struck and killed a well-known bodega cat named KitKat in San Francisco's Mission District while pulling away from a stop, prompting public outrage and a city supervisor's call for AV regulation reform.