{
 "public_id": "AIR-2024-0042",
 "incident_id": "2024-09-waymo-passenger-trapped-harassment",
 "date_disclosed": "2024-09-30",
 "date_occurred": "2024-09-28",
 "title": "Two men immobilised a Waymo by standing in front of it to demand the female passenger's phone number",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "physical_adversarial_blocking",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "pedestrian_yielding"
 ],
 "target_product": "Waymo Driver",
 "target_vendor": "Waymo (Alphabet)",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "physical_safety",
  "harassment"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one passenger; the technique works against any pedestrian-yielding autonomous vehicle",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "physical_denial_of_service",
   "safety_policy_weaponised",
   "no_human_operator",
   "passenger_safety"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "Rider Support line",
 "defense_bypassed": false,
 "fix_shipped": "unknown",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.unilad.com/technology/news/san-francisco-waymo-driverless-taxi-blocked-men-595070-20241115",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/854"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "The 28-year-old, who asked to be identified as Amina V., said the Waymo was stopped at a red light last Saturday morning when a man stood in front of the car and refused to leave, forcing the car to stop.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "The agent's safety property is the attack. Yield-to-pedestrians is correct behaviour and also a zero-skill immobilisation primitive that a human driver would have overridden. Second instance of this pattern in the corpus after the February 2024 sensor-covering case, which is why it is recorded rather than folded in. AI Incident Database incident 854.",
 "risk_category": "safety_harm",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "reliability",
  "product_misuse"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Physical Injury by Autonomous Action",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [
  "Harassment & Radicalization"
 ],
 "ai_entity": "non_generative_autonomy",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": true,
 "agency_reason": "the vehicle yielded and immobilised itself, trapping the passenger",
 "vector_family": "physical_environment",
 "vector_detail": "physical_adversarial_blocking",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   854
  ],
  "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": [
  "bias_and_toxicity"
 ],
 "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"
}