Incident 322: Tesla Model 3 Crashed into Police Patrol Car on Connecticut Highway
Description: A Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot slammed into a parked car of patrol police officers who stopped to assist a stranded motorist on the interstate in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Tesla developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Connecticut State Police.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
322
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2019-12-07
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
torquenews.com · 2019
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Yet another Tesla on Autopilot has crashed at full-speed into the back of yet another first responder's vehicle. Tesla cars seem to have an affinity for finding and smashing into police cars and fire trucks stopped doing their work on our r…
cnet.com · 2019
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This past Saturday, some typical police activity turned chaotic after a Tesla Model 3 slammed into a police cruiser on the side of I-95 in Connecticut.
The scene, which until the crash was simply State Police responding to a disabled vehic…
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.
