Autopilot Failure: Tesla Collides with Police Car While Driver Was Watching a Movie - Highlighting the Need for Responsible AI Governance

In this incident, a Tesla vehicle using Autopilot crashed into a police car while the driver was distracted, watching a movie. This tragic event underscores the importance of safe and secure AI governance. The HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM) classifies incidents like these under the 'Govern' function. Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US

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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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