{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0164",
 "incident_id": "2026-06-zoox-smoke-obscured-fire-scene-recall",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-07-17",
 "date_occurred": "2026-06-20",
 "title": "An unoccupied Zoox robotaxi drove into a smoke-obscured active fire scene in Las Vegas, prompting a 105-vehicle heavy-smoke recall",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "degraded_visibility_handling",
  "emergency_scene_recognition"
 ],
 "target_product": "Zoox automated driving system",
 "target_vendor": "Zoox (Amazon)",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "service_disruption",
  "physical_safety"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one active emergency scene entered before crews had coned it off; 105 vehicles recalled",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "degraded_sensing",
   "emergency_services_interference",
   "teleguidance_recovery",
   "software_recall"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "obstacle detection; teleguidance fallback",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "voluntary recall of all 105 vehicles with a software update improving heavy-smoke detection and response",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.autoweek.com/news/a73173312/zoox-recalls-105-robotaxis-fire-scene-incident/",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1602"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Zoox said Friday that on June 20 an unoccupied Zoox autonomous vehicle encountered heavy smoke that obscured an active emergency fire scene.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Smoke is a sensing-domain failure — it degrades cameras and lidar together — and the vehicle drove into rather than away from it, braking hard only once inside. Recovery required a remote operator to reverse it out. NHTSA's top official had just told AV companies to address a 'clear pattern' of driverless vehicles interfering with first responders; this corpus now holds five such records across Cruise, Waymo and Zoox. AI Incident Database incident 1602.",
 "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 robotaxi drove into the smoke-obscured fire scene",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "physical_safety_system"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1602
  ],
  "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"
}