Fatal Tesla Autopilot Incident: Enforcing Responsible AI for Safe Highway Driving
March 23, 2018
An unfortunate event involving a Tesla Model X on Autopilot resulted in the death of its driver. The vehicle, using Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) and Autosteer systems, is reported to have accelerated above the speed limit and steered directly into a barrier on a California highway. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help establish guardrails for AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- tesla
- Alleged developer
- tesla
- Alleged harmed parties
- walter-huang's-family, walter-huang
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/321
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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