{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0215",
 "incident_id": "2026-03-tesla-fsd-batavia-illinois-fatal-left-turn",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-09-01",
 "date_occurred": "2026-03-25",
 "title": "Tesla's own NHTSA report shows driver-assist 'Verified Engaged' as a Model Y made a left turn into a pickup in Batavia, Illinois, killing passenger Maggie Espinosa - a manoeuvre only FSD performs - while the crash narrative and software version were redacted",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "unprotected_left_turn",
  "gap_acceptance",
  "oncoming_speed_estimation"
 ],
 "target_product": "Tesla Full Self-Driving (Supervised) (inferred from the left-turn manoeuvre; Tesla redacted the software field)",
 "target_vendor": "Tesla",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "physical_safety"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one Tesla passenger killed; the Tesla driver and two other people injured; three vehicles involved",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "fatality",
   "physical_world",
   "attribution_disputed",
   "vendor_data_redaction",
   "sgo_report",
   "prosecutor_review",
   "camera_only_perception",
   "fix_did_not_hold"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "driver supervision requirement (Level 2)",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none; Kane County State's Attorney reviewing the case as of 1 Sep 2026; no charges filed",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://electrek.co/2026/09/01/tesla-driver-assist-left-turn-batavia/",
  "https://www.techtimes.com/articles/326683/20260904/tesla-withholds-fsd-crash-data-prosecutors-fatal-illinois-turn-case.htm"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Tesla marks the automation “Engagement Status” as “Verified Engaged,” and lists the 2026 Model Y’s pre-crash movement as “Making Left Turn” at 24 mph, at an intersection.",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "notes": "ATTRIBUTION NOT ADJUDICATED. Crash: ~4:19 pm, 25 Mar 2026, southbound 2026 Model Y turning left from Randall Road onto McKee Street struck a Dodge pickup that had right of way; a Nissan SUV was also involved. Front-seat passenger Maggie Espinosa, 37, died; police public account never mentioned a driver-assist system. Disclosed 1 Sep 2026 by Electrek (Fred Lambert), which matched Tesla's Standing General Order 2021-01 filing to the crash on location, vehicle, manoeuvre, fatality and month; Electrek flags that the logged UTC incident time does not cleanly convert to the reported local time. Tesla redacted the crash narrative, software version and whether the road was inside the system's approved operating domain as confidential business information, and holds EDR, telematics and video not shared with the county prosecutor (TechTimes, 4 Sep). FSD rather than basic Autopilot is inferred because Autopilot cannot execute an intersection left turn; Tesla has not confirmed. Whether the software or the driver committed to the turn is unknown. Context: crash occurred one week after NHTSA opened Engineering Analysis EA26002 (18 Mar 2026, 3.2M vehicles, FSD degradation detection in reduced visibility) - a different failure mode; EA26002 itself predates the review window and is not recorded separately. NHTSA SGO record not cited directly; press-only, hence medium. Contrast with AIR-2026-0138 (Katy, Texas), where Tesla released data promptly because it exonerated the system.",
 "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": true,
 "agency_reason": "driver-assist was engaged during the turn; driver supervision role not adjudicated",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "human_supervision"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "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"
}