{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0161",
 "incident_id": "2025-10-waymo-kitkat-cat-death",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-10-28",
 "date_occurred": "2025-10-27",
 "title": "A Waymo pulling away from a pickup ran over KitKat, a well-known Mission District bodega cat, who later died",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "perception",
  "pull_away_manoeuvre"
 ],
 "target_product": "Waymo Driver",
 "target_vendor": "Waymo (Alphabet)",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "physical_safety",
  "reputational_harm"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one animal killed; significant local backlash in San Francisco",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "small_object_perception",
   "pull_away_blind_zone",
   "physical_world",
   "community_trust"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "perception and pull-away checks",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none disclosed",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://missionlocal.org/2025/10/kitkat-mission-liquor-store-mascot-and-16th-st-ambassador-killed-on-monday/",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1269"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "KitKat, a feline fixture at Randa's Market, was struck by the robotaxi around 11:30 p.m. Monday, said the shop's owner, Mike Zeidan.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Low material severity, kept for two reasons. Technically it is a small-object blind-zone failure during the pull-away manoeuvre — the same window as the Cruise drag, at lower stakes. Socially it did more damage to Waymo's standing in San Francisco than several collisions, which is a real fact about deploying autonomous agents in neighbourhoods that have their own social fabric. AI Incident Database incident 1269.",
 "risk_category": "safety_harm",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "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 ran over the cat as it pulled away",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "physical_safety_system"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1269
  ],
  "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": [
  "human_manipulation"
 ],
 "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"
}