Safety failure
Realized harm
Tesla Cybercab loops in an Austin parking lot and delays a rider for 14 minutes until remote stop and FSD restart
AIR-2026-0271 AIR record · 2026-10-tesla-cybercab-parking-lot-routing-failure
A real party was affected. This incident caused actual consequences, not a demonstrated capability.
From the supporting source
It failed to reroute itself & did loops for 7min trying to leaving pickup parking lot. Support got on the line & stopped the vehicle. It took them another 7 min to restart FSD.x.com
The record
Disclosed
2026-10-05
Occurred
2026-10-05
Vendor
Tesla
Product
Tesla Cybercab / Tesla Robotaxi
Risk domain
Tool misuse › Uncontrolled resource consumption
System type
Classical autonomy (no generative model)
Who acted
Agent acted — driverless routing loops delay a real rider before remote support stops the vehicle and restarts its driving system
Attack surface
Autonomous operations
Autonomy level
Fully autonomous
Initial vector
None autonomous action
Impact type
Service disruption
Confidence
High
Submitted by
EAI Internal
Crosswalk
- OWASP Agentic Top 10 (2026)
- ASI02 – Tool Misuse and Exploitation
- MITRE ATLAS
- AML.T0029 – Denial of ML Service
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 3.2
- EU AI Act
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- ISO/IEC
- TR 24028; 42001; 23894
- AIUC-1
- D. Reliability
- Scope
- tool failure
- Mitigation
- Impose rate limits, timeouts, and resource quotas on agent actions.
- Taxonomy
- Enkrypt AI agent risk taxonomy · Black-Box Red Teaming of Agentic AI: A Taxonomy-Driven Framework for Automated Risk Discovery
Blast radius
One rider in Austin, delayed about 14 minutes
Capability abused
Defense & remediation
Recorded defense
Remote support stop and restart
Guardrail kinds
Unknown
Guardrail outcome
Silent
Taxonomy & references
Curator notes
Rider David Moss posted a 14-minute video on 5 Oct 2026. The driverless Cybercab could not find its way out of the pickup lot in Austin and looped for about 7 minutes; Tesla support stopped it remotely and took another 7 minutes to restart FSD. No crash or injury, and Moss himself called it an 'interesting edge case'. Tesla has not commented. Paid Cybercab rides in Austin started in early September 2026.
Supporting sources
Cite as
Enkrypt AI. "Tesla Cybercab loops in an Austin parking lot and delays a rider for 14 minutes until remote stop and FSD restart". AIR, AIR-2026-0271. https://agentincident.vercel.app/i/AIR-2026-0271/ (accessed 2026-10-19).