Incident 347: Waymo Self-Driving Taxi Behaved Unexpectedly, Driving away from Support Crew
Description: A Waymo self-driving taxi car was shown on video stranded on a road in Arizona while carrying a passenger, suddenly drove away from the company's roadside assistance worker, and ended up being stuck farther down the road.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Waymo developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Waymo passengers.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
347
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2021-05-06
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
A self-driving taxi has blocked a road in Arizona after becoming confused by a lane closed off with traffic cones.
The Waymo vehicle repeatedly drove away from roadside assistance, dispatched within minutes of the car becoming stuck.
Passen…
CHANDLER, Ariz. — A confused Waymo self-driving taxi car was captured on video as it became stranded on an Arizona road earlier this month while carrying a passenger and then unexpectedly driving away as a worker from the company's roadside…
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.
