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Incident 70: Self-driving cars in winter

Description: Volvo autonomous driving XC90 SUV's experienced issues in Jokkmokk, Sweden when sensors used for automated driving iced over during the winter, rendering them useless.

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Alleged: Volvo developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Volvo , drivers in Jokkmokk and drivers in Sweden.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
70
Report Count
4
Incident Date
2016-02-10
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
CSETv0, CSETv1, GMF, MIT

CSETv1 Taxonomy Classifications

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Incident Number

The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
 

70

CSETv0 Taxonomy Classifications

Taxonomy Details

Physical System

Where relevant, indicates whether the AI system(s) was embedded into or tightly associated with specific types of hardware.
 

Vehicle/mobile robot

Level of Autonomy

The degree to which the AI system(s) functions independently from human intervention. "High" means there is no human involved in the system action execution; "Medium" means the system generates a decision and a human oversees the resulting action; "low" means the system generates decision-support output and a human makes a decision and executes an action.
 

High

Nature of End User

"Expert" if users with special training or technical expertise were the ones meant to benefit from the AI system(s)’ operation; "Amateur" if the AI systems were primarily meant to benefit the general public or untrained users.
 

Amateur

Public Sector Deployment

"Yes" if the AI system(s) involved in the accident were being used by the public sector or for the administration of public goods (for example, public transportation). "No" if the system(s) were being used in the private sector or for commercial purposes (for example, a ride-sharing company), on the other.
 

No

Data Inputs

A brief description of the data that the AI system(s) used or were trained on.
 

traffic patterns, radar, LIDAR, video camera footage

Infrastructure Sectors

Where applicable, this field indicates if the incident caused harm to any of the economic sectors designated by the U.S. government as critical infrastructure.
 

Transportation

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
 

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

Entity

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

AI

Timing

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

Pre-deployment

Intent

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

Unintentional

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

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Self-Driving Vehicles Meet Their Match When Snow Creates Sensor Blindness
Self-driving cars in winter5 Things That Give Self-Driving Cars Headaches
Self-Driving Vehicles Meet Their Match When Snow Creates Sensor Blindness

Self-Driving Vehicles Meet Their Match When Snow Creates Sensor Blindness

insurancejournal.com

Self-driving cars succumb to snow blindness as driving lanes disappear

Self-driving cars succumb to snow blindness as driving lanes disappear

autonews.com

Self-driving cars in winter

Self-driving cars in winter

2025ad.com

5 Things That Give Self-Driving Cars Headaches

5 Things That Give Self-Driving Cars Headaches

nytimes.com

Self-Driving Vehicles Meet Their Match When Snow Creates Sensor Blindness
insurancejournal.com · 2016

In Jokkmokk, a tiny hamlet just north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden, where temperatures can dip to 50 below, Volvo Cars’ self-driving XC90 sport-utility vehicle met its match: frozen flakes that caked on radar sensors essential to reading …

Self-driving cars succumb to snow blindness as driving lanes disappear
autonews.com · 2016

DETROIT (Bloomberg) -- In Jokkmokk, a tiny hamlet just north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden, where temperatures can dip to 50 below, Volvo Cars’ self-driving XC90 SUV met its match: frozen flakes that caked on radar sensors essential to rea…

Self-driving cars in winter
2025ad.com · 2016

There will come a day when automated driving technology steps out of the controlled testing environments and into the real world. For Volvo, that day will arrive in 2017. But are self-driving cars ready to face the elements?

Volvo describes…

5 Things That Give Self-Driving Cars Headaches
nytimes.com · 2016

Fully automated cars don’t drink and drive, fall asleep at the wheel, text, talk on the phone or put on makeup while driving. With their sensors and processors, they navigate roads without any of these human failings that can result in acci…

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