Cruise Taxis' Sudden Braking Allegedly Put People at Risk

March 15, 2022

An incident occurred where Cruise's autonomous taxis suddenly slowed, braked and were rear-ended due to their abrupt stop. This unexpected behavior may have posed a risk not only to the passengers but also to other road users, emphasizing the need for safe and secure AI practices.

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MAP 3.2 — similarity 0.676, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: cruise
Alleged developer: cruise
Alleged harmed parties: traffic-participants, emergency-vehicles, cruise-passengers, cruise

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/427

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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