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The Waymo cab was filmed driving straight into a police cordon on High Street, Harlesden, on Wednesday night. Waymo said the car was in manual mode with a validation driver in full control. The car carried no passengers because the firm said it is still in the testing phase. After a brief interaction with police officers, the driver reversed the vehicle and safely exited the area. The company said its analysis suggested that the automated system would have identified the police tape and stopped the vehicle. The driver has been suspended pending an investigation.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"minor","harm_class":[],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c30rgpd2n14o","publisher":"BBC","date":"2026-04-24","type":"press","title":"Waymo taxi: Watch car veer into Harlesden crime scene - BBC","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report","independence":"independent"}],"per_field_confidence":{"system.developer":"C","event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","event.detection_method":"D","context.country":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"system.developer":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Waymo said after \"a brief interaction\" with police officers, the driver reversed the vehicle and safely exited the area."}],"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A driverless taxi company has apologised after one of its cars veered into a crime scene in north London."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The company, which apologised for any disruption, added that their analysis suggested that had the automated driving system been engaged at the time, it would have correctly identified the police tape and stopped the vehicle automatically."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A driverless taxi company has apologised after one of its cars veered into a crime scene in north London."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The Waymo cab was filmed driving straight into a police cordon on High Street, Harlesden, on Wednesday night."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The US firm, which plans to be operating a robotaxi service in London by September, said the car was in manual mode \"with a validation driver in full control\"."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The car was not carrying passengers as Waymo is \"still in the testing phase\", according to the firm."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Waymo said after \"a brief interaction\" with police officers, the driver reversed the vehicle and safely exited the area."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The company, which apologised for any disruption, added that their analysis suggested that had the automated driving system been engaged at the time, it would have correctly identified the police tape and stopped the vehicle automatically."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The driver has been suspended pending an investigation."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"Only one source (BBC press report) was given. The exact date of the incident is not stated, only Wednesday night, so no date_occurred was recorded; the source header date 2026-04-24 was not used as an event date. The source does not say whether the automated driving system was engaged; it states the car was in manual mode with a validation driver in full control. Judgement: agent_involved set to false because the vehicle was under human control; incident_class operational_error and deployment_context and lifecycle_stage evaluation are my classification of a testing-phase vehicle driven by a human. Judgement: impact.severity minor because no passengers or third-party data were affected and the source describes only disruption. The source does not state a trigger, root cause, detection method, responsible party, controls that held or failed, or any remediation beyond suspending the driver; the operations partner is not named. No risk or control was stated, so risks, links and remediations are empty. Duration and time to contain are not stated. 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