{
 "public_id": "AIR-2023-0020",
 "incident_id": "2023-08-cruise-ambulance-delay-disputed",
 "date_disclosed": "2023-08-25",
 "date_occurred": "2023-08-14",
 "title": "Two Cruise robotaxis blocked lanes around an ambulance carrying a critically injured patient who later died; fault later attributed elsewhere",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "yielding_behaviour"
 ],
 "target_product": "Cruise autonomous vehicle",
 "target_vendor": "Cruise (General Motors)",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "service_disruption",
  "physical_safety"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one emergency medical transport in SoMa, San Francisco",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "emergency_services_interference",
   "disputed_causation",
   "physical_world"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "emergency-vehicle detection",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none disclosed",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://gizmodo.com/cruise-robotaxi-san-francisco-death-city-bus-1850836421",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/563"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a critically injured patient who later died at a hospital, a San Francisco Fire Department report said, in another incident involving self-driving cars in the city.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "DISPUTED CAUSATION. The SFFD report described a transport delay; subsequent reporting cleared Cruise of responsibility for the death, which was attributed to a human-driven city bus. impact_realized is true for the documented delay to emergency response, NOT for the fatality. Kept because the AV/emergency-services interaction failure is real and separable from the disputed outcome. AI Incident Database incident 563.",
 "risk_category": "safety_harm",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "reliability"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Physical Injury by Autonomous Action",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "non_generative_autonomy",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": true,
 "agency_reason": "the robotaxis blocked lanes around the ambulance",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "physical_safety_system"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   563
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "none",
 "agent_framework": "robotaxi_stack",
 "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": [
  "uncontrolled_resource_consumption"
 ],
 "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"
}