"Here in the Mission [district], we will never forget our sweet KitKat, we will always put community before tech oligarchs," Fielder said in an Instagram reel."
"AVs [autonomous vehicles] collect endless amounts of data on us and from a road ridership struggling for public transportation, contribute to traffic congestion, and also drive harmful mining practices in the Global South."
"If I were the Waymo PR team, I would be hoping that this whole KitKat thing just dies, and that's not happening," Fielder said."
A Waymo autonomous vehicle struck and killed a neighborhood tabby cat named KitKat, provoking local grief and backlash. Years of activist campaigns, political lobbying, and vandalism had not slowed Waymo’s expansion, but the cat's death galvanized renewed scrutiny. District supervisor Jackie Fielder appealed to the governor and state regulators and tied the incident to concerns about congestion, noise, data privacy, and weakened public transit. A previously dead state Senate bill sought to shift authority over driverless cars to municipal governments. Fielder announced a resolution at Randa's Market to ask state legislators to allow municipal voters the final say.
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