Incident 459: Firefighters Smashed Cruise AV's Front Window to Stop It from Running over Fire Hoses
Description: Local firefighters were only able to stop a Cruise AV from driving over fire hoses that were in use in an active fire scene when they shattered its front window.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Cruise developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed San Francisco residents , San Francisco firefighters and San Francisco Fire Department.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
459
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2023-01-21
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
Emergency Responder Incidents
In San Francisco comments on the Draft CPUC Resolution to approve the Cruise initial advice letter, San Francisco informed the Commission of an incident on April 5, 2022 when a Cruise AV stopped in a travel lan…
Just days before transportation officials asked to slow down the growth of autonomous vehicles in the city, San Fransisco firefighters reportedly had to smash the windows of a Cruise vehicle to prevent it from running over fire hoses. It'…
A Cruise autonomous vehicle drove toward fire hoses on the ground in the area of active firefighting on January 21, the city’s transport officials said in a letter to regulators on Wednesday.
“Firefighters on the scene made efforts to preve…
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.