Incident 171: Traffic Camera Misread Text on Pedestrian's Shirt as License Plate, Causing UK Officials to Issue Fine to an Unrelated Person
Description: A Bath resident was wrongly fined by the local officials because an automated license plate recognition camera misread the text on her shirt as a license plate number.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: unknown developed an AI system deployed by Bath government, which harmed Paula Knight , Bath officials and UK public.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
171
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2021-10-18
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
GMF Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsKnown AI Goal
An AI Goal which is almost certainly pursued by the AI system referenced in the incident.
License Plate Recognition
Known AI Technology
An AI Technology which is almost certainly a part of the implementation of the AI system referenced in the incident.
Visual Object Detection, Optical Character Recognition
Potential AI Technical Failure
An AI Technical Failure which probably contributes to the AI system failure referenced in the incident.
Context Misidentification, Misconfigured Threshold, Misconfigured Aggregation, Generalization Failure
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
thedrive.com · 2021
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- View the report at the Internet Archive
The purpose of automating any task is to reduce cost and labor. This is one of the reasons the world is working so hard on robotaxis, and why traffic enforcement in large cities has moved to license-plate reading traffic cameras. In both ca…
Variants
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