{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0138",
 "incident_id": "2026-06-tesla-katy-texas-fatal-home-crash",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-06-21",
 "date_occurred": "2026-06-19",
 "title": "A Tesla Model 3 the driver said was in driver-assistance mode left the road in Katy, Texas and killed a woman inside her home",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "lane_keeping",
  "driver_input_arbitration"
 ],
 "target_product": "Tesla driver-assistance system",
 "target_vendor": "Tesla",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "physical_safety"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one resident, Martha Avila, killed inside her home; Harris County and NHTSA investigations opened",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "fatality",
   "attribution_disputed",
   "override_semantics",
   "physical_world",
   "regulatory_investigation"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "lane keeping and driver monitoring",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none; investigations ongoing",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/us/tesla-autopilot-crash-texas.html",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1552"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "The driver, Michael Butler, was in a Tesla Model 3 about 8 p.m. local time and operating the car \"with an automated driving assistance system,\" the Harris County Sheriff's Office said in a statement on Saturday.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "ATTRIBUTION DISPUTED. The driver told investigators assistance was engaged; Tesla's Autopilot vice president said he had overridden self-driving by fully depressing the accelerator. Both can be true, and that is the point worth recording: 'the human overrode it' and 'the system was driving' describe the same seconds, and a design where flooring the pedal silently transfers full authority mid-manoeuvre makes the accountability question unanswerable after the fact. A bystander in her own home was killed; investigations are unresolved. AI Incident Database incident 1552.",
 "risk_category": "safety_harm",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "legal_ip"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Physical Injury by Autonomous Action",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "non_generative_autonomy",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": true,
 "agency_reason": "the driver-assistance system left the road and killed a woman",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "human_supervision"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1552
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "none",
 "agent_framework": "adas",
 "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"
}