{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0117",
 "incident_id": "2026-04-waymo-freeway-construction-zone-recall",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-05-19",
 "date_occurred": "2026-04-11",
 "title": "Thirteen Waymo robotaxis drove into closed freeway construction zones at speed in Phoenix and the Bay Area, prompting a 3,871-vehicle recall",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "closure_control_recognition",
  "highway_speed_planning"
 ],
 "target_product": "Waymo 5th Generation Automated Driving System",
 "target_vendor": "Waymo (Alphabet)",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "physical_safety"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "13 incidents over five weeks; 3,871 vehicles recalled; construction workers exposed to freeway-speed traffic in active work areas",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI08"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "closure_control_failure",
   "repeat_over_weeks",
   "freeway_speed",
   "workers_at_risk",
   "software_recall",
   "fleet_wide"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "construction-zone and closure detection",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "voluntary NHTSA recall 26E035 covering 3,871 vehicles; freeway service suspended in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Miami",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/waymo-recall-freeway-construction-zones-22312033.php",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1547"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the software may allow a vehicle to enter a closed freeway construction zone and continue driving at speed, increasing the risk of a crash.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Thirteen occurrences over five weeks before the recall — the gap between first occurrence and fleet-wide remedy is the systemic issue, not the individual defect. Cones, barriers and closure signage are a human-legible convention the agent did not reliably parse, and the people relying on that convention were construction workers. One of three Waymo recalls in this corpus within roughly six months, alongside the school-bus and flooding recalls. AI Incident Database incident 1547.",
 "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": "thirteen vehicles drove into closed construction zones at speed",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1547
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI08",
 "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": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI08 (fleet fan-out in a non-generative stack; other mechanisms out of scope)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}