Autopilot Failure: Tesla Crashes into Police Car While Driver Watches Movie — Raising Concerns for Safe and Secure AI
An incident involving a Tesla vehicle with Autopilot engaged crashing into a cop car highlights the need for responsible AI governance. The driver admitted to watching a movie during the incident, underscoring potential distractions that can lead to harm. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help ensure trustworthy AI? JOIN US
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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/20
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Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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