Tesla on Autopilot Crashed into Flipped Truck on Taiwan Highway

June 1, 2020

A Tesla Sedan, in Autopilot mode, collided with an overturned truck on a Taiwanese highway, narrowly avoiding a pedestrian. This incident underscores the critical importance of trustworthy AI governance and guardrails for safe and secure AI practices.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.690, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 1.2 — similarity 0.657, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MANAGE 4.3 — similarity 0.649, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: tesla
Alleged developer: tesla
Alleged harmed parties: delivery-truck, pedestrians, tesla-drivers

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/218

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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