Police in the San Francisco Bay Area took an unusual approach to stop a Tesla operating on Autopilot as a drunk driver slept behind the wheel

In an extraordinary incident, police in the San Francisco Bay Area took a unique approach to stop a Tesla vehicle operating on Autopilot, with a drunk driver asleep behind the wheel. This raises questions about responsible AI governance and safe and secure driving automation.

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MAP 3.5 — similarity 0.507, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 4.3 — similarity 0.507, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 6.2 — similarity 0.504, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

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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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