Driverless Cruise Cars Immobilized in San Francisco Traffic Jam

August 11, 2023

A fleet of Cruise's autonomous vehicles experienced a standstill on a congested San Francisco street, highlighting the importance of robust wireless connectivity for trustworthy AI. This incident was precipitated by festival-induced network congestion.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.669, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 2.7 — similarity 0.638, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 4.3 — similarity 0.634, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

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

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/595

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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