Tesla on Autopilot Struck Parked Work Truck on Highway in Pennsylvania

June 23, 2023

Incident: A 2016 Tesla operating under Autopilot collided with a stationary 2007 Freightliner truck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike highway. This event underscores the importance of trustworthy AI governance and safe and secure AI practices.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.690, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MANAGE 4.3 — similarity 0.659, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 4.1 — similarity 0.654, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: tesla
Alleged developer: tesla
Alleged harmed parties: truck-drivers, tesla-drivers, david-clough

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/560

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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