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Hong Kong Airport Authority (autonomous shuttle)

Products: automation-operator. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 14.1/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 47th percentile of 62 other companies.

Analyst brief

The record shows two driverless shuttle collisions at Hong Kong International Airport, in June and August 2025, both classed as crashes at severity 2, with the August incident described as the airport's second such event. The repetition within a three-month span at the same site and same shuttle program indicates a pattern rather than an isolated incident, though severity has remained at the lower crash tier with no injury or fatality entries recorded. Index and percentile (14.2, 46.8, low band) place this program mid-pack within the broad other category. The record is press-driven, drawn from incident reporting rather than a regulatory recall or citation.

Entries by year and severity

122025 S2: 2225
S1S2S3S4S5

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crash over time vs category

Incident log (2 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S208/2025 crash Hong Kong International Airport, H…Driverless shuttle bus hits tow tractor in second Hong Kong airport collision South China Morning Post
S206/22
2025 · 16:20
crash Hong Kong International Airport, H…Driverless bus crash at Hong Kong airport South China Morning Post

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