Cruise AV Ran Over Fire Hose in Active Fire Scene

June 12, 2022

A Cruise autonomous vehicle (AV) inadvertently ran over a fire hose during an active firefighting operation, raising concerns about the need for responsible AI governance and trustworthy AI practices.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.724, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MANAGE 4.3 — similarity 0.696, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 4.2 — similarity 0.694, 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/460

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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