Safety failure
Realized harm
A Waymo dispatched to a new rider with a man trapped in its trunk, having failed to detect him before accepting the trip
AIR-2025-0193 AIR record · 2025-12-waymo-trunk-occupant-dispatch
A real party was affected. This incident caused actual consequences, not a demonstrated capability.
From the supporting source
Waymo confirmed that a pedestrian entered the trunk after the previous rider left it open.latimes.com
The record
Disclosed
2025-12-11
Occurred
2025-12-08
Vendor
Waymo (Alphabet)
Product
Waymo Driver
Risk domain
Agent behaviour › Unsafe actuation
System type
Classical autonomy (no generative model)
Who acted
Agent acted — the vehicle accepted and started a trip with a man in its trunk
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 trapped man and one unsuspecting rider near MacArthur Park, Los Angeles; police called to extract him
Capability abused
Defense & remediation
Recorded defense
between-trip vehicle readiness checks
Guardrail kinds
Unknown
Guardrail outcome
Silent
Fix shipped
none disclosed
Taxonomy & references
Curator notes
A human driver clears the vehicle between fares by looking. The agent's readiness check did not model 'is there a person in the cargo area', so it accepted the next trip and drove off with him inside — and the man could not open it from within. Cheap to dismiss as absurd; it is a plain state-verification gap in a system with no operator present to notice anything unmodelled. AI Incident Database incident 1337.
Supporting sources
Cite as
Enkrypt AI. "A Waymo dispatched to a new rider with a man trapped in its trunk, having failed to detect him before accepting the trip". AIR, AIR-2025-0193. https://agentincident.vercel.app/i/AIR-2025-0193/ (accessed 2026-10-19).