Tesla Driver Put Car on Autopilot Before Falling Asleep in Germany

December 28, 2022

A Tesla driver on the Autobahn near Bamberg, Germany, activated his vehicle's Autopilot mode before falling asleep. Despite efforts by the police to pull the car over, the system did not respond.

This incident underscores the critical role of trustworthy AI and the need for robust governance in the development and deployment of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Join us at HISPI Project Cerebellum as we strive to establish guardrails for AI, mapping and measuring such incidents to prevent harm.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.672, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MANAGE 4.3 — similarity 0.628, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 2.7 — similarity 0.627, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: tesla
Alleged developer: tesla
Alleged harmed parties: traffic-participants

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/436

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

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