Tesla Model 3 Accident Involving Police: An Incident Highlighting the Need for Safe and Secure AI

December 7, 2019

An unfortunate incident occurred on a Connecticut highway where a Tesla Model 3, in Autopilot mode, collided with a parked police patrol car. This underscores the importance of trustworthy AI and robust governance mechanisms. 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
connecticut-state-police

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/322

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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