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AI Incidents

Cruise Autonomous Car Blocked Fire Truck Responding to Emergency

April 5, 2022

A fire truck in San Francisco responding to a fire was blocked from passing a doubled-parked garbage truck by a self-driving Cruise car on the opposing lane which stayed put and did not reverse to clear the lane.
Alleged deployer
cruise
Alleged developer
cruise
Alleged harmed parties
san-francisco-firefighters, san-francisco-fire-department

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/389

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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