Cruise's Autonomous Vehicles Allegedly Engaging in Risky Behavior Near Pedestrians

October 17, 2023

The autonomous vehicles developed by Cruise are under federal scrutiny for reportedly disregarding safe and secure AI governance near crosswalks and pedestrians. Incidents, including a severe injury case, have raised concerns about the vehicles' ability to comply with responsible AI guidelines.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.733, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
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MAP 4.1 — similarity 0.701, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: cruise
Alleged developer: cruise
Alleged harmed parties: pedestrians, general-public

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/596

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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