Tesla Allegedly Misled Customers about Autopilot and FSD Capabilities

May 28, 2021

California's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) raised concerns about Tesla's promotional practices for Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) technologies, alleging the company of making misleading or untrue statements regarding the capabilities of its AI systems. This incident underscores the importance of trustworthy AI and highlights the need for clear governance in autonomous vehicle technology.

For those interested in shaping safe and secure AI practices, join us at HISPI Project Cerebellum to contribute to our AI incident database and help establish effective guardrails for AI. JOIN US

Matched TAIM controls

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

MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.685, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.668, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 4.1 — similarity 0.661, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: tesla
Alleged developer: tesla
Alleged harmed parties: california-department-of-motor-vehicles, tesla-customers, california-residents

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/291

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.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.