Tesla Allegedly on Autopilot Struck High School Student Exiting School Bus

March 17, 2023

A tragic incident occurred in Hollister, North Carolina when a 17-year-old student was hit by a Tesla Model Y allegedly operating in Autopilot mode while exiting his school bus. The victim sustained fractures to his neck and leg.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.669, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
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Alleged deployer: tesla
Alleged developer: tesla
Alleged harmed parties: tillman-mitchell, the-mitchells-family

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/550

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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