{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0162",
 "incident_id": "2025-02-waymo-safe-exit-cyclist-dooring",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-11",
 "date_occurred": "2025-02-16",
 "title": "Waymo stopped in a marked bike lane and a passenger doored a cyclist into a second Waymo also entering the lane",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "passenger_drop_off",
  "hazard_warning"
 ],
 "target_product": "Waymo Driver (Safe Exit system)",
 "target_vendor": "Waymo (Alphabet)",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "physical_safety"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one cyclist with alleged brain, spinal and soft-tissue injuries; litigation against Waymo and Alphabet",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "safety_system_failure",
   "illegal_stop",
   "compounding_agents",
   "physical_world",
   "litigation"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "Safe Exit passenger warning system",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none disclosed; contested in court",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/s-f-cyclist-sues-waymo-doored-robotaxi-20385289.php",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1537"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Hanki alleges the company's Safe Exit system, designed to warn passengers of such incoming hazards, failed in the February crash.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Two failures compound: the agent chose an illegal stop at a no-stopping curb beside a bike lane, and the mitigation built for exactly that risk did not fire. A second Waymo then entered the same lane and removed the escape path. Allegations from a filed lawsuit, not adjudicated findings. AI Incident Database incident 1537.",
 "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 chose an illegal bike-lane stop, leading to the dooring",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1537
  ],
  "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": [],
 "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"
}