Waymo Self-Driving Taxi Review | Making peace with autonomous driving technology

On October 27, 2025, a car ran over a cat in San Francisco. Oceans away, I filed a report on the tragic killing of nine-year-old KitKat. Why did news about the death of a cat in California make international headlines? That’s because KitKat was run over by a self-driving Waymo car, owned by Google-parent Alphabet. The company runs a fleet of self-driving electric taxis that are gradually being deployed across cities in the U.S.

While local residents slammed Waymo’s safety standards and erected a monument for KitKat, supporters of self-driving cars pointed out that thousands of animals are run over by human-driven cars every year. Robotaxis, on the other hand, are designed to become safer with every iteration, they claimed.