Waze App Misdirection: Vehicle Accident in Dark and Foggy Lake Champlain, Vermont

January 12, 2018

A tragic incident occurred in Vermont as tourists driving under challenging conditions were allegedly misdirected by Waze app, causing their vehicle to slide into Lake Champlain. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).
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Alleged deployer
waze
Alleged developer
waze
Alleged harmed parties
tourists, waze-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/227

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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