TuSimple Truck Steered into Interstate Freeway Divide

April 6, 2022

An autonomous TuSimple truck, under the supervision of backup drivers, experienced a departure from the safe lane due to outdated command sequence, resulting in an unintended steering towards the center divide on an interstate freeway. This incident underscores the importance of robust AI governance and guardrails for safe and secure AI practices.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.737, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 1.2 — similarity 0.701, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 4.2 — similarity 0.699, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: tusimple
Alleged developer: tusimple
Alleged harmed parties: tusimple, state-of-arizona

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/378

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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