{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0193",
 "incident_id": "2025-12-waymo-trunk-occupant-dispatch",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-12-11",
 "date_occurred": "2025-12-08",
 "title": "A Waymo dispatched to a new rider with a man trapped in its trunk, having failed to detect him before accepting the trip",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "occupancy_detection",
  "trip_dispatch",
  "vehicle_state_check"
 ],
 "target_product": "Waymo Driver",
 "target_vendor": "Waymo (Alphabet)",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "physical_safety"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one trapped man and one unsuspecting rider near MacArthur Park, Los Angeles; police called to extract him",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "state_verification_gap",
   "no_human_operator",
   "pre_trip_check_failure",
   "physical_world"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "between-trip vehicle readiness checks",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none disclosed",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-11/waymo-problems-man-jumps-into-trunk-of-driverless-taxi-in-la-gets-stuck-removed-by-police",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1337"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Waymo confirmed that a pedestrian entered the trunk after the previous rider left it open.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "A human driver clears the vehicle between fares by looking. The agent's readiness check did not model 'is there a person in the cargo area', so it accepted the next trip and drove off with him inside — and the man could not open it from within. Cheap to dismiss as absurd; it is a plain state-verification gap in a system with no operator present to notice anything unmodelled. AI Incident Database incident 1337.",
 "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 accepted and started a trip with a man in its trunk",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1337
  ],
  "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"
}