Tesla Vehicle Running on Self-Driving Mode Crashes on City Streets

July 6, 2019

A Tesla autonomous vehicle, operating outside the supported conditions of its software, crashed while in self-driving mode, causing injury to the driver. Despite this incident, a jury found no damages warranted. This highlights the importance of responsible AI governance and Project Cerebellum's role in safe and secure AI practices.

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Alleged deployer: justine-hsu
Alleged developer: tesla
Alleged harmed parties: justine-hsu

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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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