{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0153",
 "incident_id": "2026-07-waymo-firework-vehicle-fire",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-07-05",
 "date_occurred": "2026-07-04",
 "title": "An unoccupied Waymo drove over a lit firework in San Francisco and caught fire",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "road_hazard_recognition"
 ],
 "target_product": "Waymo Driver",
 "target_vendor": "Waymo (Alphabet)",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "property_damage"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one vehicle destroyed near the 1200 block of Connecticut Street; no occupants, no injuries",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "unmodelled_hazard",
   "long_tail_scenario",
   "physical_world"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "road-debris detection",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none disclosed",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/waymo-firework-fire-san-francisco-22333244.php",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1583"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "\"An unoccupied vehicle drove over a small firework in the street and caught fire,\" a Waymo spokesperson said Sunday",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Minor in consequence, kept as a clean long-tail example: a lit firework is a road object a human driver recognises instantly as do-not-drive-over, and it is almost certainly absent from the agent's training distribution. The corpus's physical-autonomy records are dominated by exactly this category — situations obvious to any local human and unmodelled by the system. AI Incident Database incident 1583.",
 "risk_category": "reliability",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Destructive or irreversible action",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "non_generative_autonomy",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the vehicle drove over the lit firework",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1583
  ],
  "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: Destructive or irreversible 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"
}