Cruise Autonomous Car Blocked Fire Truck Responding to Emergency

April 5, 2022

In San Francisco, a fire truck responding to an emergency was obstructed by a stationary autonomous Cruise vehicle that refused to reverse. This incident underscores the importance of safe and secure AI practices. For those interested in shaping governance for such scenarios, JOIN US. This event aligns with the HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM's Measure function, as it emphasizes the need to assess and mitigate potential harm caused by AI incidents.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.754, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 3.1 — similarity 0.712, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 2.7 — similarity 0.706, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

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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