Safety failure
Zoox recalled 332 robotaxis after finding 62 instances of vehicles crossing the yellow centre line into oncoming traffic near intersections
AIR-2025-0198 AIR record · 2025-08-zoox-centre-line-crossing-recall
From the supporting source
The company opened an investigation after a Zoox robotaxi made a wide right turn in late August, crossed partially into the opposing travel lane, and temporarily stopped in front of the oncoming travel lane.techcrunch.com
The record
Disclosed
2025-12-23
Occurred
2025-08-26
Vendor
Zoox (Amazon)
Product
Zoox automated driving system
Risk domain
Agent behaviour › Unsafe actuation
System type
Classical autonomy (no generative model)
Who acted
Agent acted — 62 vehicles crossed the centre line into oncoming traffic
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
332 vehicles recalled; 62 identified lane-crossing instances in San Francisco and Las Vegas service areas; no collisions
Capability abused
Defense & remediation
Recorded defense
lane-keeping and turn planning
Guardrail kinds
Unknown
Guardrail outcome
Silent
Fix shipped
voluntary NHTSA software recall (25E090) shipped as an over-the-air update
Taxonomy & references
Curator notes
impact_realized false — no collision occurred. Included because of what the investigation found: one observed event led to 62 instances of the same behaviour across the fleet. A single agent's odd manoeuvre is a policy defect every sibling shares, which is why fleet-wide auditing after any one incident is the only sound response. AI Incident Database incident 1539.
Supporting sources
Cite as
Enkrypt AI. "Zoox recalled 332 robotaxis after finding 62 instances of vehicles crossing the yellow centre line into oncoming traffic near intersections". AIR, AIR-2025-0198. https://agentincident.vercel.app/i/AIR-2025-0198/ (accessed 2026-10-19).