Incident 398: Tesla Autopilot Misidentified On-Road Horse-Drawn Carriage
Description: Tesla Autopilot's computer vision system was shown in a video mistaking a horse-drawn carriage for other forms of transport such as a truck, a car, and a human following a car.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Tesla developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Tesla drivers and horse-drawn carriages.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
398
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2022-08-15
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
A video posted by a Tesla driver appears to show his car's Autopilot system confusing a horse-drawn carriage for a truck.
The video, posted by Swiss YouTuber RealRusty, shows his Tesla approaching a horse-drawn carriage on a highway outside…
A friend just shared this with me. A great example for how deep learning models struggle with out-of-distribution data.
I wonder how many carriages the model has seen during training 😅
Tesla, the automobile giant and the market leader in electric vehicles thanks to its cutting-edge driving technology, including ‘self-driving/autopilot’ feature, found itself a target of snide remarks from bemused netizens.
Although the aut…
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