{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0056",
 "incident_id": "2026-03-waymo-austin-ambulance-obstruction",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-03-02",
 "date_occurred": "2026-03-01",
 "title": "A Waymo en route to a pickup stopped across a street and blocked an ambulance responding to the Austin West Sixth Street mass shooting",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "emergency_vehicle_yielding",
  "scene_avoidance"
 ],
 "target_product": "Waymo Driver",
 "target_vendor": "Waymo (Alphabet)",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "service_disruption",
  "physical_safety"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one ambulance briefly delayed responding to a shooting that killed three and injured 19; Austin council members formally demanded a meeting",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "emergency_services_interference",
   "mass_casualty_scene",
   "speaker_intervention",
   "physical_world"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "emergency-vehicle detection; remote support reachable via the vehicle speaker",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none disclosed",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/council-member-calls-on-waymo-to-address-emergency-response-concerns-after-mass-shooting",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1543"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Waymo and EMS officials confirmed the video shows the company's vehicle blocking the ambulance.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Austin-Travis County EMS said patient care was not significantly affected, so impact_realized rests on the documented obstruction rather than a medical outcome. The resolution is the tell: an officer had to talk to the car through its external speaker to get it moved. Third emergency-services interference record in the corpus after the 2023 Cruise fire-hose and ambulance cases — the agent was routing to a fare pickup beside an active mass-casualty scene it had no concept of. AI Incident Database incident 1543.",
 "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 stopped across the street and blocked the ambulance",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "physical_safety_system"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1543
  ],
  "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": [
  "uncontrolled_resource_consumption"
 ],
 "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"
}