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Incident 253: Cruise's Self-Driving Cars Allegedly Lost Connection to Their Server, Causing Traffic Blockages in San Francisco

Description: Cruise’s autonomous vehicles were shown on video stopping in the middle of the road and causing blockages in San Francisco, as they were disabled allegedly due to lost connection to their company’s server.

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Alleged: Cruise developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed San Francisco traffic participants and San Francisco public.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
253
Report Count
4
Incident Date
2022-05-18
Editors
Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
GMF, MIT

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Known AI Goal Snippets

One or more snippets that justify the classification.
 

(Snippet Text: Cruise’s driverless cars experienced serious issues Tuesday night with as many as 20 of its vehicles standing motionless for about two hours at the corner of Gough and Fulton streets, according to an eyewitness. , Related Classifications: Autonomous Driving)

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A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

7.3. Lack of capability or robustness

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. AI system safety, failures, and limitations

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AI

Timing

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Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Unintentional

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Incident OccurrenceTweet: @sgatzCruise driverless cars blocked traffic for hours Tuesday night+1
GM Cruise Robotaxis Blocked SF Streets More Frequently Than We Knew, One Night ‘Nearly 60’ Cars Stopped
Tweet: @sgatz

Tweet: @sgatz

twitter.com

Cruise driverless cars blocked traffic for hours Tuesday night

Cruise driverless cars blocked traffic for hours Tuesday night

sfexaminer.com

GM Cruise Robotaxis Blocked SF Streets More Frequently Than We Knew, One Night ‘Nearly 60’ Cars Stopped

GM Cruise Robotaxis Blocked SF Streets More Frequently Than We Knew, One Night ‘Nearly 60’ Cars Stopped

sfist.com

Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco

Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco

wired.com

Tweet: @sgatz
twitter.com · 2022

A very San Francisco Saturday night. A pack of 3 driverless @Cruise cars got confused and stopped and blocked two lanes of Masonic. The robots will win just by blocking traffic.

Cruise driverless cars blocked traffic for hours Tuesday night
sfexaminer.com · 2022

Cruise’s driverless cars experienced serious issues Tuesday night with as many as 20 of its vehicles standing motionless for about two hours at the corner of Gough and Fulton streets, according to an eyewitness. The incident was only resolv…

GM Cruise Robotaxis Blocked SF Streets More Frequently Than We Knew, One Night ‘Nearly 60’ Cars Stopped
sfist.com · 2022

GM Cruise snafus have blocked SF streets with suddenly immobilized self-driving cars at least three times in the last two months, with one incident where almost 60 vehicles stopped, and another where Cruise “lost touch with its entire fleet…

Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
wired.com · 2022

Around midnight on June 28, Calvin Hu was driving with his girlfriend near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park when he pulled up at an intersection behind two white and orange autonomous Chevrolet Bolts operated by Cruise, a subsidiary of Gene…

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