Tesla Autopilot: AI Incident - Collision with Stationary Fire Truck on California Freeway
January 22, 2018
The autonomous Tesla Model S, utilizing its Autopilot mode, collided with a stationary fire truck on a Culver City freeway in California. This incident underscores the importance of responsible AI governance and highlights the need for safe and secure AI, as well as guardrails for AI development. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- tesla
- Alleged developer
- tesla
- Alleged harmed parties
- tesla-drivers, culver-city-fire-department
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/320
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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