Incident 595: Driverless Cruise Cars Immobilized in San Francisco Traffic Jam
Description: A fleet of Cruise's autonomous vehicles became unexpectedly immobilized on a busy San Francisco street, causing significant traffic disruption. The incident was attributed to wireless connectivity issues exacerbated by a nearby festival.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Cruise developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed General public.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
595
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2023-08-11
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
sfchronicle.com · 2023
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As many as 10 Cruise driverless cars stopped working in San Francisco’s North Beach on Friday night, causing traffic to back up and leaving some questioning the decision of state regulators a day earlier to approve the expanded use of robot…
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.