Incident 230: Model 3 Tesla on Autopilot Crashed into a Truck in Florida, Killing Driver

Description: In Florida, a Model 3 Tesla on Autopilot mode crashed into a tractor-trailer truck, killing the 50-year-old driver.

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Alleged: Tesla developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Jeremy Beren Banner and Tesla users.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
230
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2019-03-01
Editors
Khoa Lam
Tesla’s Autopilot was engaged when Model 3 crashed into truck, report states
theverge.com · 2019

Tesla’s advanced driver assist system, Autopilot, was active when a Model 3 driven by a 50-year-old Florida man crashed into the side of a tractor-trailer truck on March 1st, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) states in a repor…

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.