Incident 381: Autonomous Roborace Car Drove Directly into a Wall
Description: An autonomous Roborace car drove itself into a wall in round one of the Season Beta 1.1 race.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: SIT Acronis Autonomous developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed SIT Acronis Autonomous.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
381
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2020-10-29
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
engadget.com · 2020
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Robots still have some trouble handling the basics when put to the test, apparently. Roborace team SIT Acronis Autonomous suffered an embarrassment in round one of the Season Beta 1.1 race after its self-driving car abruptly drove directly …
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.