Autopilot Incident: Tesla Vehicle Strikes Police Car While Driver Was Watching a Movie - Highlighting the Need for Safe and Secure AI

This AI incident involving a Tesla vehicle equipped with Autopilot highlights the importance of responsible AI governance. The driver, distracted by a movie, resulted in a collision with a police car. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). If you are passionate about ensuring trustworthy and safe AI, __join_us__ to contribute to our AI incident database and help establish guardrails for AI development.

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/20

Data source

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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