Incident 378: TuSimple Truck Steered into Interstate Freeway Divide

Description: A TuSimple autonomous truck operating with backup drivers behind the wheel operated on an outdated command sequence and suddenly veered into the center divide on the interstate freeway.

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Alleged: TuSimple developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed TuSimple and State of Arizona.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
378
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2022-04-06
Editors
Sean McGregor
Self-Driving Truck Accident Draws Attention to Safety at TuSimple
wsj.com · 2022

On April 6, an autonomously driven truck fitted with technology by TuSimple increase; green up pointing triangle Holdings Inc. suddenly veered left, cut across the I-10 highway in Tucson, Ariz., and slammed into a concrete barricade.

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TuSimple reportedly tried to pass off a self-driving truck crash as “human error”
theverge.com · 2022

Last April, a semi-trailer truck operated by the San Diego-based company that was traveling down I-10 in Tucson, Arizona, suddenly lurched left, slamming into a concrete divider, according to dashcam footage leaked to YouTuber Asian Mai. Tu…

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.