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Incident 398: Tesla Autopilot Misidentified On-Road Horse-Drawn Carriage

Description: Tesla Autopilot's computer vision system was shown in a video mistaking a horse-drawn carriage for other forms of transport such as a truck, a car, and a human following a car.

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Alleged: Tesla developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Tesla drivers and horse-drawn carriages.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
398
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2022-08-15
Editors
Khoa Lam
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MIT

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Machine-Classified
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Risk Subdomain

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

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Post-deployment

Intent

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Unintentional

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Video appears to show a Tesla's Autopilot system confusing horse-drawn carriage for truck+2
Tweet: @ISusmelj
Video appears to show a Tesla's Autopilot system confusing horse-drawn carriage for truck

Video appears to show a Tesla's Autopilot system confusing horse-drawn carriage for truck

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Tweet: @ISusmelj

Tweet: @ISusmelj

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Tesla autopilot feature mistakes horse carriage for a truck, netizens amused - Technology News

Tesla autopilot feature mistakes horse carriage for a truck, netizens amused - Technology News

wionews.com

Video appears to show a Tesla's Autopilot system confusing horse-drawn carriage for truck
businessinsider.com · 2020

A video posted by a Tesla driver appears to show his car's Autopilot system confusing a horse-drawn carriage for a truck.

The video, posted by Swiss YouTuber RealRusty, shows his Tesla approaching a horse-drawn carriage on a highway outside…

Tweet: @ISusmelj
twitter.com · 2022

A friend just shared this with me. A great example for how deep learning models struggle with out-of-distribution data.

I wonder how many carriages the model has seen during training 😅

Tesla autopilot feature mistakes horse carriage for a truck, netizens amused - Technology News
wionews.com · 2022

Tesla, the automobile giant and the market leader in electric vehicles thanks to its cutting-edge driving technology, including ‘self-driving/autopilot’ feature, found itself a target of snide remarks from bemused netizens.

Although the aut…

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