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Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025
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A small animal not being visible to a human or robotic driver is absolutely a viable excuse. It's sad that the cat died, but it's first an foremost the fault of the owners for letting their cat out.
I don't like the tech bro world and I'm not a fan of driverless vehicles, but this didn't happen because it was driverless and the outcome would be the same if their were a person behind the wheel.
You can definitely argue against cars being on the road in general, but I was on a bike ride with a buddy the other day, and he hit a squirrel that ran between us and then under his bike. Sometimes bad things happen especially when dealing with animals, and blaming a computer blindly is dumb AF.