Cruise Taxis' Sudden Braking Allegedly Put People at Risk

March 15, 2022

Cruise's autonomous taxis slowed suddenly, braked, and were hit from behind, allegedly becoming unexpected roadway obstacles and potentially putting passengers and other people at risk.
Alleged deployer
cruise
Alleged developer
cruise
Alleged harmed parties
traffic-participants, emergency-vehicles, cruise-passengers, cruise

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/427

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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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