Safety failure
Realized harm
A Zoox robotaxi hit the opening driver's door of a parked Cadillac in San Francisco, injuring the man's hand
AIR-2026-0020 AIR record · 2026-01-zoox-parked-car-door-collision
A real party was affected. This incident caused actual consequences, not a demonstrated capability.
From the supporting source
Durden's hand was reportedly smashed during the crash, and the Zoox vehicle suffered damage to its glatechcrunch.com
The record
Disclosed
2026-01-28
Occurred
2026-01-17
Vendor
Zoox (Amazon)
Product
Zoox robotaxi
Risk domain
Agent behaviour › Unsafe actuation
System type
Classical autonomy (no generative model)
Who acted
Agent acted — the robotaxi struck the opening door and injured the man's hand
Attack surface
Autonomous operations
Autonomy level
Fully autonomous
Initial vector
None autonomous action
Impact type
Physical safety, Property damage
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 injured person at 15th and Mission Streets; SFPD investigation and California DMV review
Capability abused
Defense & remediation
Recorded defense
obstacle detection and avoidance
Guardrail kinds
Physical safety system
Guardrail outcome
Silent
Fix shipped
none disclosed
Taxonomy & references
Curator notes
Zoox says the door opened suddenly and the vehicle detected it and tried to avoid contact — plausible, and also the crux: detection that arrives too late to change the outcome is indistinguishable from no detection. Named victim Jamel Durden, street ambassador. First reported by Mission Local. AI Incident Database incident 1540.
Supporting sources
Cite as
Enkrypt AI. "A Zoox robotaxi hit the opening driver's door of a parked Cadillac in San Francisco, injuring the man's hand". AIR, AIR-2026-0020. https://agentincident.vercel.app/i/AIR-2026-0020/ (accessed 2026-10-19).