{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0223",
 "incident_id": "2026-09-zoox-las-vegas-arts-district-road-closure",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-09-07",
 "date_occurred": "2026-09-04",
 "title": "A driverless Zoox robotaxi hesitated at a Road Closed sign in the Las Vegas Arts District, then steered past the barricade and drove the wrong way down the closed street",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_driving",
  "traffic_control_interpretation",
  "path_planning"
 ],
 "target_product": "Zoox robotaxi",
 "target_vendor": "Zoox (Amazon)",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "traffic_violation",
  "public_safety_risk"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one closed street in the Las Vegas Arts District; no collision or injury reported",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "physical_world",
   "traffic_control_device_ignored",
   "obstacle_vs_command_confusion",
   "construction_zone",
   "regulatory_exemption_context",
   "fix_did_not_hold"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "onboard perception of the barricade (the vehicle visibly hesitated); remote support/help button",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "none disclosed; Zoox did not respond to KSNV's request for comment",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://hoodline.com/2026/09/zoox-robotaxi-cruises-past-closed-road-sign-in-las-vegas-arts-district-driver-sounds-alarm/",
  "https://news3lv.com/news/local/las-vegas-rideshare-driver-urges-caution-after-zoox-robotaxi-ignores-road-closure-sign",
  "https://vehicle-safety.org/stories/878-zoox-exemption-month-one-breach"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "A driverless Zoox robotaxi drove past a road-closed sign in Las Vegas's Arts District on September 4, traveling the wrong way down a closed road before a viral video of the moment set off new questions about how autonomous vehicles handle unexpected road conditions.",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "notes": "Surfaced by a viral video reported by KSNV News 3 (7 Sep 2026) and Hoodline (8 Sep); no vendor statement, no NHTSA record, occupancy not reported. UNLV Transportation Research Center director Shashi Nambisan judged the sign a compliant black-on-white road-closure notice and said the vehicle likely treated it as an obstacle to route around because a travel lane remained open - the 'detection without a hard stop' shape: the hazard was perceived (the car hesitated) and the policy answered with routing instead of refusal. Context: NHTSA granted Zoox the first commercial exemption for a steering-wheel-free robotaxi on 30 Jul 2026 (up to 2,500 vehicles, through 2028, revocable); Zoox moved to paid fares on 10 Aug and began airport service on 3 Sep; the 17 Jul recall of 105 vehicles (AIR-2026-0164) addressed smoke and emergency-scene detection after NHTSA's July warning that emergency scenes and construction zones were a 'functional insufficiency' - this event exposes the construction-zone half that the update did not address. vehicle-safety.org ('The Crash Report', 11 Sep) is an aggregating commentary site and is listed for the exemption timeline only. impact_realized false: a traffic violation with no reported collision or injury. Secondary press only, hence medium.",
 "risk_category": "legal_ip",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Breach of Contract / TOS Violation Enablement",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "non_generative_autonomy",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the driverless vehicle steered past the barricade on its own",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "physical_safety_system"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "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": "policy_drift",
 "eai_domain": "governance",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Breach of Contract / TOS Violation Enablement",
 "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"
}