Sleeping Driver on Tesla AutoPilot

December 1, 2018

A Tesla Model S incident occurred when the driver, under the influence of alcohol, fell asleep while the vehicle was in autopilot mode. The police had to intervene by slowing down in front of the car to trigger its 'driver assist' feature.

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MANAGE 4.3 — similarity 0.623, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 4.3 — similarity 0.615, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.609, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: tesla, motorist
Alleged developer: tesla
Alleged harmed parties: motorists

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/67

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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