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Autonomous Grab shuttle nearly collides with girl in Punggol

Preliminary Why: Publisher not yet named · subject to change

Status: action reported, no fix

Severity negligible
Reported 6 Nov 2026

No source states: money lost or records count, developer and model, agent tool, could do, deployer, industry.

Severity negligible: Nothing beyond the system itself was affected and nothing was left changed. A collision was avoided and no injury or loss is reported.

An autonomous shuttle operated by Grab and WeRide seemingly failed to detect a child at a pedestrian crossing in Punggol while turning.

What happened

1 · What it was doingAn autonomous shuttle operated by Grab and WeRide was making a left turn at a Punggol junction at about 8.11am on Nov 5.
2 · What went wrongThe shuttle seemingly failed to detect a child at a crossing and kept driving while turning.
3 · What it reached or didA young girl about to cross was nearly struck but stepped back in time. The scope was one pedestrian near-miss at one junction.
4 · How it was caughtA driver behind the shuttle, Faris Kamsani, noticed it and recorded dashcam footage. He then called the hotline on the vehicle.

What was done

Grab says it is reviewing the incident with the LTA and WeRide.

Risks

Agent takes destructive or unapproved actions
Primary64 incidents
Rising: 9 vs 2.0 a week

Sorted by rule from the case's fields; not yet read from the sources.

Controls

Not yet read for controls. Controls that mitigate the primary risk:

Harness

Tool allow-list · Fail-closed defaults · Stop control

Application

Human approval for high-impact actions · Change review and separation of duties · Least-privilege access for the agent · Production kept apart from test · Activity logs · Adversarial testing before deployment · Undo for agent actions

Infrastructure / target

Backups and recovery

Evidence

No source states: when it was found, how many records were exposed, the direct loss, a count of the other parties affected, any court case, the cause, what set it off.

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What happened

Earliest source we hold
2026-11-06
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown
Who caught it
the victim
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown
Near miss
yes, no harm happened
C one secondary source states it
What went wrong
operational mistake
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown
AI agent
an AI agent acted
C one secondary source states it

Impact

Severity
negligible
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown
Kind of harm
no harm happened
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown
Who was affected
A young girl who was about to cross at a pedestrian light
C one secondary source states it
Why this severity
Nothing beyond the system itself was affected and nothing was left changed. A collision was avoided and no injury or loss is reported.
D inferred by us from the described behaviour, reason shown

Notes on gaps

Year of occurrence taken from the publication date.

LR-2026-0852 · version 2 · published 2026-11-06 after automatic checks; not yet checked field by field by a person · changes to this case · JSON