Fatal Tesla Autopilot Incident: Highlighting the Importance of Safe and Secure AI
April 29, 2018
Tesla Model X on Autopilot reportedly failed to identify parked vehicles and pedestrians in Kanagawa, Japan, resulting in a fatal accident. This unfortunate event underscores the critical role trustworthy AI plays in enhancing road safety. Want to contribute to improving AI governance and help prevent such incidents? JOIN US This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).
- Alleged deployer
- tesla
- Alleged developer
- tesla
- Alleged harmed parties
- yoshihiro-umeda, pedestrians, tesla-drivers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/232
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.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
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