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Waymo acknowledges its vehicle hit a San Francisco corner store cat

33 points| bryan0 | 4 months ago |sfgate.com

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guywithahat|4 months ago

> the robotaxi company has acknowledged the death but stopped short of claiming responsibility

Which is probably accurate, cats are notorious for darting into traffic, and in this case the cat ran under the car while it was pulling away. While I would like autonomous vehicles to be better than us, the responsibility lies in the store owner who let their cat play in the street

cut3|4 months ago

A waymo ran over my skateboard so it makes sense they run over skateboard sized animals

anon7000|4 months ago

Good thing humans never ran over a beloved pet :)

Jk, I think my family alone had about 5 animals die to humans driving cars. (Very rural area with a mostly quiet road. A number of these were stray cats, can’t really control where they go.)

“Kill a Waymo! Save a cat“ Kill a human save a cat? The outrage is misdirected

lm28469|4 months ago

Humans don't have 360 degree lidar with 2000 times the compute power we used to send people on the moon though