{
 "public_id": "AIR-2023-0006",
 "incident_id": "2023-03-tesla-autopilot-school-bus-student",
 "date_disclosed": "2023-03-17",
 "date_occurred": "2023-03-15",
 "title": "Tesla Model Y allegedly on Autopilot struck a 17-year-old exiting a stopped school bus at 45 mph",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "perception",
  "physical_actuation"
 ],
 "target_product": "Tesla Autopilot",
 "target_vendor": "Tesla",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "physical_safety"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one pedestrian critically injured; NHTSA investigation into the wider Autopilot fleet",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "perception_failure",
   "physical_world",
   "regulatory_investigation"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "driver-monitoring / hands-on-wheel nag",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "NHTSA probe; no fix attributed to this crash",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.wtkr.com/news/north-carolina-teenager-recovering-after-being-hit-by-tesla",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/550"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "The school bus was displaying its stop sign and flashing red warning lights, a police report said, when Tillman Mitchell, 17, stepped off one afternoon in March. Then a Tesla Model Y approached on North Carolina Highway 561. The car — allegedly in Autopilot mode — never slowed down.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Autopilot is driver-supervised, so autonomy_level is semi_autonomous rather than fully_autonomous. The system failed to respond to an unambiguous, legally mandated stop condition. Attribution to Autopilot is alleged, not adjudicated. AI Incident Database incident 550.",
 "risk_category": "safety_harm",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "legal_ip"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Physical Injury by Autonomous Action",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "non_generative_autonomy",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the driving system struck the student",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "human_supervision"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   550
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "none",
 "agent_framework": "adas",
 "model_provider": "none",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "unsafe_actuation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Physical Injury by Autonomous Action",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "out_of_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "out_of_scope",
 "asi_reason": "out of scope: non_generative_autonomy: no ASI mechanism describes the failure",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}