Safety failure
Realized harm
Waymo stopped in a marked bike lane and a passenger doored a cyclist into a second Waymo also entering the lane
AIR-2025-0162 AIR record · 2025-02-waymo-safe-exit-cyclist-dooring
A real party was affected. This incident caused actual consequences, not a demonstrated capability.
From the supporting source
Hanki alleges the company's Safe Exit system, designed to warn passengers of such incoming hazards, failed in the February crash.sfchronicle.com
The record
Disclosed
2025-11
Occurred
2025-02-16
Vendor
Waymo (Alphabet)
Product
Waymo Driver (Safe Exit system)
Risk domain
Agent behaviour › Unsafe actuation
System type
Classical autonomy (no generative model)
Who acted
Agent acted — the vehicle chose an illegal bike-lane stop, leading to the dooring
Attack surface
Autonomous operations
Autonomy level
Fully autonomous
Initial vector
None autonomous action
Impact type
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 cyclist with alleged brain, spinal and soft-tissue injuries; litigation against Waymo and Alphabet
Capability abused
Defense & remediation
Recorded defense
Safe Exit passenger warning system
Guardrail kinds
Unknown
Guardrail outcome
Silent
Fix shipped
none disclosed; contested in court
Taxonomy & references
Curator notes
Two failures compound: the agent chose an illegal stop at a no-stopping curb beside a bike lane, and the mitigation built for exactly that risk did not fire. A second Waymo then entered the same lane and removed the escape path. Allegations from a filed lawsuit, not adjudicated findings. AI Incident Database incident 1537.
Supporting sources
Cite as
Enkrypt AI. "Waymo stopped in a marked bike lane and a passenger doored a cyclist into a second Waymo also entering the lane". AIR, AIR-2025-0162. https://agentincident.vercel.app/i/AIR-2025-0162/ (accessed 2026-10-19).