{
 "public_id": "AIR-2024-0005",
 "incident_id": "2024-02-waymo-sensor-obstruction-passengers-trapped",
 "date_disclosed": "2024-02-03",
 "date_occurred": "2024-02-03",
 "title": "Waymo passengers were stranded mid-ride when a bystander covered the vehicle's sensors, with no in-vehicle way to resolve it",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "physical_sensor_manipulation",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "perception"
 ],
 "target_product": "Waymo Driver",
 "target_vendor": "Waymo (Alphabet)",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "physical_safety",
  "service_disruption"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "two passengers on one ride; class of failure affects every driverless ride",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "physical_denial_of_service",
   "sensor_manipulation",
   "no_human_operator",
   "passenger_safety"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "remote support line",
 "defense_bypassed": false,
 "fix_shipped": "unknown",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://abc7news.com/waymo-sf-attacked-self-driving-car-incidents/14397184/",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/853"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "On Saturday, Robert and his husband said a person who looked homeless was trying to cover the sensors of the vehicle as the light turned green.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Low-severity but structurally interesting: an adversary needs no software access to halt a fully autonomous agent, only its sensors, and the passengers had no override. Physical-layer denial of service against an embodied agent. Remote support told riders to stay in the vehicle. AI Incident Database incident 853.",
 "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": false,
 "agency_reason": "the vehicle stranded its passengers mid-ride",
 "vector_family": "physical_environment",
 "vector_detail": "physical_sensor_manipulation",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   853
  ],
  "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"
}