Uber Responds to Regulatory Challenges: Self-Driving Vehicle Violates Traffic Signal

In an unprecedented incident, a self-driving Uber vehicle was reported to have run a red light. This raises questions about AI governance and the need for safe and secure AI in autonomous vehicles. The company has responded, denouncing traffic light laws as 'archaic' and 'incompatible with AI technology.'

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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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