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A Tesla Crashed into and Killed a Road Sweeper on a Highway in China

AI Incident Database · article · Sep 14, 2016 · UTC

A Tesla Model S collided with and killed a road sweeper on a highway near Handan, China, an accident where Tesla previously said it was not able to determine whether Autopilot was operating at the time of the crash.

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incident-report
evidenceStatus
reported
region
Global

Reported occurrence date: 2016-01-20T00:00:00.000Z

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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