HYUNDAI Ioniq 5 Incident

On October [XXX], 2025, at approximately 2:30 PM PT, a Motional AV with VIN [XXX] was operating in autonomous mode in Las Vegas, Nevada, with a safety driver in the drivers seat. The vehicle was traveling northbound on [XXX] in the second of four lanes from the left, approaching the intersection with [XXX]. While stopped at a red traffic signal, an adult male pedestrian began crossing [XXX] from the west side of the street, several hundred feet away from a designated crosswalk. The pedestrian proceeded southbound across multiple lanes and paused on a median located ahead and to the left of the AV. The AV detected and classified the pedestrian the entire time. When the traffic signal turned green, the pedestrian remained stopped on the median. Given that the pedestrian remained stopped in place, the AV began to move forward slowly at approximately 2.5 mph and continued to correctly detect and classify the pedestrian. The pedestrian, holding what appears to be an item in a plastic bag, suddenly stepped into the far-left turn lane ahead of the AV, the AV immediately came to a complete stop still in the second lane. The pedestrian continued crossing, making a light physical contact with the rear driver’s side of the vehicle before continuing across the remaining three lanes of traffic still outside of the crosswalk. The vehicle operator then disengaged the autonomous system and pulled over to complete an incident report. No police were notified. There were no injuries, no damage, and no airbag deployments. The pedestrian did not stop at the scene and the identity of the pedestrian is unknown.