{
 "public_id": "AIR-2023-0019",
 "incident_id": "2023-08-cruise-north-beach-fleet-immobilization",
 "date_disclosed": "2023-08-11",
 "date_occurred": "2023-08-11",
 "title": "Up to ten Cruise robotaxis simultaneously stalled in San Francisco's North Beach after a connectivity loss",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "fleet_coordination"
 ],
 "target_product": "Cruise autonomous vehicle fleet",
 "target_vendor": "Cruise (General Motors)",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "service_disruption"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "Grant Avenue traffic in North Beach; occurred one day after CPUC approved fleet expansion",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI08"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "correlated_failure",
   "fleet_wide",
   "connectivity_dependency"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "remote assistance over wireless link",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none disclosed; CPUC later halved the permitted fleet",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/robotaxi-backup-18293208.php",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/595"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "As many as 10 Cruise driverless cars stopped working in San Francisco’s North Beach on Friday night, causing traffic to back up and leaving some questioning the decision of state regulators a day earlier to approve the expanded use of robotaxis in the city.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Correlated failure: the whole local fleet shared one dependency (the wireless link to remote assistance), so a single degradation stalled many agents at once. The multi-agent analogue of a shared-service outage. AI Incident Database incident 595.",
 "risk_category": "reliability",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "legal_ip"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Load & Resilience Failures",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "non_generative_autonomy",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "ten vehicles stalled themselves in traffic",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "human_supervision"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   595
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI08",
 "agent_framework": "robotaxi_stack",
 "model_provider": "none",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "uncontrolled_resource_consumption",
 "eai_domain": "tool_misuse",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Load & Resilience Failures",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI08 (fleet fan-out in a non-generative stack; other mechanisms out of scope)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}