Safety failure
Realized harm
Tesla Cybertruck on Full Self-Driving v13 failed to merge out of an ending lane, hit a curb and destroyed itself on a light pole
AIR-2025-0006 AIR record · 2025-02-tesla-cybertruck-fsd-pole-crash
A real party was affected. This incident caused actual consequences, not a demonstrated capability.
From the supporting source
The driver, Jonathan Challinger, said the Cybertruck "failed to merge out of a lane that was ending...and made no attempt to slow down."autoblog.com
The record
Disclosed
2025-02-09
Occurred
2025-02
Vendor
Tesla
Product
Tesla Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v13
Risk domain
Agent behaviour › Unsafe actuation
System type
Classical autonomy (no generative model)
Who acted
Agent acted — FSD drove into the curb and pole
Attack surface
Autonomous operations
Autonomy level
Semi-autonomous
Initial vector
None autonomous action
Impact type
Property damage, Physical safety
Confidence
High
Submitted by
EAI Internal
Crosswalk
- OWASP Agentic Top 10 (2026)
- ASI01 – Agent Goal Hijack
- MITRE ATLAS
- AML.T0048 – External Harms
- NIST AI RMF
- MEASURE 2.6; MANAGE 1.3
- EU AI Act
- Annex III §1(c)
- ISO/IEC
- TR 24028; 24029-1; 23894
- AIUC-1
- C. Safety
- Scope
- agent misuse
- Mitigation
- Require confirmation for destructive actions; Implement dry-run modes; Use layered safety controls.
- Taxonomy
- Enkrypt AI agent risk taxonomy · Black-Box Red Teaming of Agentic AI: A Taxonomy-Driven Framework for Automated Risk Discovery
Blast radius
one vehicle destroyed; driver uninjured; reported by the driver himself
Capability abused
Defense & remediation
Recorded defense
driver supervision required by the product's own terms
Guardrail kinds
Human supervision
Guardrail outcome
Silent
Fix shipped
none attributed
Taxonomy & references
Curator notes
The detail worth keeping is 'made no attempt to slow down': the agent had no degraded-mode fallback between confident driving and collision. Self-reported by the driver, who publicly accepted that supervision was his responsibility — which is precisely the burden that supervised-autonomy products place on the human and that this record exists to question. AI Incident Database incident 940.
Supporting sources
Cite as
Enkrypt AI. "Tesla Cybertruck on Full Self-Driving v13 failed to merge out of an ending lane, hit a curb and destroyed itself on a light pole". AIR, AIR-2025-0006. https://agentincident.vercel.app/i/AIR-2025-0006/ (accessed 2026-10-19).