Comment by pinkmuffinere
3 days ago
Waymo has been quite good about responsibly learning and improving imo. I do hope and think they’ll learn from this.
3 days ago
Waymo has been quite good about responsibly learning and improving imo. I do hope and think they’ll learn from this.
Have they implemented a cat-friendly update since the incident a few months ago?
I had to look up what this was a reference to. Several months ago a cat ran underneath a Waymo and the vehicle's rear tire ran over it while pulling away from the curb. The NYT has a video [1] of the incident.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/waymo-kit-kat-san-fran...
I mean: I haven't implemented a cat-friendly update to my own driving, and it isn't clear to me how I would ever begin to attempt to do so.
I’d bet you already have a mode that would’ve prevented what happened to the cat. From NYT reporting on the actual incident:
A human driver, she believes, would have stopped and asked if everything was OK after seeing a concerned person kneeling in front of their car and peering underneath.
“I didn’t know if I should reach out and hit one of the cameras or scream,” she said of the perilous moment. “I sort of froze, honestly. It was disorienting that Waymo was pulling away with me so close to it.”
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