Tesla Autopilot Misidentified On-Road Horse-Drawn Carriage

August 15, 2022

Recently, a video surfaced showing Tesla's Autopilot system misinterpreting a horse-drawn carriage as various vehicles, including trucks, cars, and even pedestrians. Such incidents underscore the need for trustworthy AI practices in our autonomous vehicles.

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Alleged deployer: tesla
Alleged developer: tesla
Alleged harmed parties: tesla-drivers, horse-drawn-carriages

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/398

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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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