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Tesla Autopilot Misidentified On-Road Horse-Drawn Carriage

AI Incident Database · article · Aug 20, 2020 · UTC

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.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2022-08-15T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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