AI Navigation Incident: Google Maps Misguiding Tahoe Travelers in Snowstorm

In a recent incident, users of Google Maps reported being misled during a snowstorm in the Lake Tahoe region. The navigation system is suspected to have suggested routes that were impassable or dangerous due to heavy snowfall.

Matched TAIM controls

Suggested mapping from embedding similarity (not a formal assessment). Browse all TAIM controls

MEASURE 2.10 — similarity 0.479, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 4.2 — similarity 0.477, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 2.8 — similarity 0.477, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/155

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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