Incident 231: A Tesla Crashed into and Killed a Road Sweeper on a Highway in China

Description: A Tesla Model S collided with and killed a road sweeper on a highway near Handan, China, an accident where Tesla previously said it was not able to determine whether Autopilot was operating at the time of the crash.

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Alleged: Tesla developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Gao Yaning and Tesla drivers.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
231
Report Count
4
Incident Date
2016-01-20
Editors
Khoa Lam

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.