The co-CEO of Waymo, Tekedra Mawakana, raised eyebrows this week when she suggested that society was ready for one of the company’s self-driving taxis to kill someone.

“You know, we don’t say ‘whether,” she said Monday at TechCrunch’s Disrupt summit. “We say ‘when.’ And we plan for them.”

But maybe the real question is whether Waymo was prepared for when one of its vehicles would take the life of a beloved bodega cat. Just hours after her remarks on Monday, a resident cat at San Francisco liquor store Randa’s Market named KitKat was found in the street fighting for his life.

A motorist named Jeff Klein recounted the horrific scene to Mission Local. He was driving behind the Waymo at 11:40PM on 16th Street, he says, when the robotaxi suddenly jerked off course.

“Some folks on the sidewa

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