Incident 253: Cruise's Self-Driving Cars Allegedly Lost Connection to Their Server, Causing Traffic Blockages in San Francisco

Description: Cruise’s autonomous vehicles were shown on video stopping in the middle of the road and causing blockages in San Francisco, as they were disabled allegedly due to lost connection to their company’s server.

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Alleged: Cruise developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed San Francisco traffic participants and San Francisco public.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
253
Report Count
4
Incident Date
2022-05-18
Editors
Khoa Lam

GMF Taxonomy Classifications

Taxonomy Details

Known AI Goal

Autonomous Driving

Potential AI Technology

Image Segmentation, Geolocation Data

Potential AI Technical Failure

Software Bug, Hardware Failure, Backup Failure

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.