{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0007",
 "incident_id": "2026-01-waymo-phoenix-light-rail-tracks",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-01-08",
 "date_occurred": "2026-01-07",
 "title": "A Waymo drove onto Phoenix light-rail tracks and stopped as a train approached; the passenger fled on foot and the car drove on down the tracks",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "drivable_surface_classification",
  "recovery_behaviour"
 ],
 "target_product": "Waymo Driver",
 "target_vendor": "Waymo (Alphabet)",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "physical_safety"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one passenger who abandoned the vehicle mid-trip; light-rail corridor at Central and Southern Avenues, Phoenix",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "wrong_surface",
   "no_safe_recovery",
   "passenger_self_evacuation",
   "physical_world"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "drivable-surface classification",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none disclosed",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.azfamily.com/2026/01/08/waymo-passenger-flees-after-car-drives-phoenix-light-rail-tracks/",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1541"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Video taken by a bystander near Central and Southern avenues shows the moment the self-driving car stops on the tracks just before an oncoming light rail approaches.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Two failures in sequence: entering a rail corridor it should never classify as drivable, and then — having stopped in front of a train — continuing along the tracks rather than reversing off. The passenger's decision to get out and run is the honest verdict on whether riders trust the agent's recovery behaviour. No collision, but impact_realized true on the passenger being forced to self-evacuate into a live rail corridor. AI Incident Database incident 1541.",
 "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 drove onto the light-rail tracks and then drove down them",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1541
  ],
  "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"
}