{
 "public_id": "AIR-2024-0050",
 "incident_id": "2024-12-waymo-serve-robot-collision",
 "date_disclosed": "2024-12-31",
 "date_occurred": "2024-12-27",
 "title": "A Waymo robotaxi collided with a Serve Robotics sidewalk delivery robot in West Hollywood — two autonomous agents failing to negotiate each other",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "autonomous_navigation",
  "right_of_way_negotiation"
 ],
 "target_product": "Waymo Driver and Serve Robotics delivery robot",
 "target_vendor": "Waymo (Alphabet) / Serve Robotics",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "property_damage"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one delivery robot; no humans involved on either side",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "agent_vs_agent",
   "multi_operator_interaction",
   "physical_world",
   "no_shared_protocol"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "each vendor's own obstacle detection",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none disclosed",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/31/a-waymo-robotaxi-and-a-serve-delivery-robot-collided-in-los-angeles/",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/881"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "A Waymo robotaxi reportedly collided with a Serve Robotics delivery robot at a West Hollywood intersection on December 27th, 2024.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Kept for a reason unrelated to severity: it is the corpus's clearest instance of two autonomous agents from different operators colliding with no human party. Neither vendor's model of the road includes the other's agent as a first-class actor, and there is no shared protocol between them. That gap scales as more independently-trained agents share an environment. Verified quote is the AI Incident Database's own summary. AI Incident Database incident 881.",
 "risk_category": "reliability",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Destructive or irreversible action",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "non_generative_autonomy",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "two autonomous vehicles drove into each other",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "physical_safety_system"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   881
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "none",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "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: Destructive or irreversible 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"
}