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Tesla Allegedly on Autopilot Struck High School Student Exiting School Bus

March 17, 2023

A 17-year-old student in Hollister, North Carolina who exited the school bus and was walking across the street to his house was hit by a 2022 Tesla Model Y allegedly operating on Autopilot mode, suffering a fractured neck and a broken leg.
Alleged deployer
tesla
Alleged developer
tesla
Alleged harmed parties
tillman-mitchell, the-mitchells-family

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/550

Data source

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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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