Incident 181: BMW Sedan Made a Prohibited Left Turn, Colliding with a Cruise Autonomous Vehicle
Description: A BMW Sedan reportedly made an illegal left turn, causing a minor collision but no injuries with a Cruise autonomous vehicle (AV) operating in autonomous mode.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Cruise developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Cruise vehicle.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
181
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2022-02-11
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
A Cruise autonomous vehicle ("Cruise AV"), operating in driverless autonomous mode, was at a complete stop in response to a red light on southbound Masonic Avenue at the intersection with Oak Street. At the intersection, an Acura Sedan was …
On September 30 last year autonomous driving startup Cruise was granted permission to operate test vehicles in San Francisco without a safety driver behind the wheel.
The approval came with the conditions the vehicles could only be operated…
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.