Google Maps Allegedly Directed Sierra Nevada Travelers to Dangerous Roads amid Winter Storm
December 27, 2021
Lake Tahoe travelers were allegedly guided by Google Maps into hazardous shortcuts in the mountains during a snowstorm.
- Alleged deployer
- google-maps
- Alleged developer
- google-maps
- Alleged harmed parties
- google-maps-users-traveling-in-sierra-nevada, google-maps-users-traveling-in-the-mountains
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/155
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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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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