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AI Incidents

Tesla on Autopilot Struck Parked Work Truck on Highway in Pennsylvania

June 23, 2023

A 2016 Tesla on Autopilot crashed into the rear of a parked 2007 Freightliner truck providing traffic control on the Pennsylvania Turnpike highway.
Alleged deployer
tesla
Alleged developer
tesla
Alleged harmed parties
truck-drivers, tesla-drivers, david-clough

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/560

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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