Incident 97: Tesla Autopilot Mistakes Red Letters on Flag for Red Traffic Lights

Description: A Tesla Model 3 misidentified flags with "COOP" written vertically on them as traffic lights.

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Alleged: Tesla developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Tesla drivers.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
97
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2020-10-22
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam

CSETv1 Taxonomy Classifications

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Harm Distribution Basis

none

Sector of Deployment

transportation and storage

Incident Reports

Tesla Autopilot Mistakes Red Letters on Flag for Red Traffic Lights
interestingengineering.com · 2020

Last week, we reported on the rollout of Tesla's Full Self-Driving Beta to a select few Tesla owners.

Though self-driving technology has undeniably come a long way in the last few years, we're never far from a reminder that the technology a…

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.