A Self-Driving Cruise Robot Taxi Reportedly Struck and Dragged a Pedestrian 20 Feet
October 2, 2023
Cruise has settled for between $8 million and $12 million with a pedestrian dragged by one of its autonomous vehicles in October 2023. The incident, where the pedestrian was initially hit by a human-driven car and then dragged 20 feet by the Cruise vehicle, led to the suspension of Cruise's operations and increased regulatory scrutiny.
- Alleged deployer
- cruise
- Alleged developer
- cruise
- Alleged harmed parties
- unnamed-pedestrian
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/726
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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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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