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Incident 322: Tesla Model 3 Crashed into Police Patrol Car on Connecticut Highway

Description: A Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot slammed into a parked car of patrol police officers who stopped to assist a stranded motorist on the interstate in Norwalk, Connecticut.

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Alleged: Tesla developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Connecticut State Police.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
322
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2019-12-07
Editors
Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

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

5.1. Overreliance and unsafe use

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. Human-Computer Interaction

Entity

Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
 

Human

Timing

The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
 

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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Tesla Model 3 On Autopilot Hits Yet Another Police Vehicle - Why Won't They Stop?
Tesla Model 3 crashes into police car with Autopilot engaged
Tesla Model 3 On Autopilot Hits Yet Another Police Vehicle - Why Won't They Stop?

Tesla Model 3 On Autopilot Hits Yet Another Police Vehicle - Why Won't They Stop?

torquenews.com

Tesla Model 3 crashes into police car with Autopilot engaged

Tesla Model 3 crashes into police car with Autopilot engaged

cnet.com

Tesla Model 3 On Autopilot Hits Yet Another Police Vehicle - Why Won't They Stop?
torquenews.com · 2019

Yet another Tesla on Autopilot has crashed at full-speed into the back of yet another first responder's vehicle. Tesla cars seem to have an affinity for finding and smashing into police cars and fire trucks stopped doing their work on our r…

Tesla Model 3 crashes into police car with Autopilot engaged
cnet.com · 2019

This past Saturday, some typical police activity turned chaotic after a Tesla Model 3 slammed into a police cruiser on the side of I-95 in Connecticut. 

The scene, which until the crash was simply State Police responding to a disabled vehic…

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.

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