AutonomousHigh
Tesla Allegedly on Autopilot Struck High School Student Exiting School Bus
- Occurred
- Mar 17, 2023
- Published
- Mar 17, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A 17-year-old student in Hollister, North Carolina who exited the school bus and was walking across the street to his house was hit by a 2022 Tesla Model Y allegedly operating on Autopilot mode, suffering a fractured neck and a broken leg.
Developers
- Tesla
Deployers
- Tesla
Harmed parties
- Tillman Mitchell
- the Mitchells family
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves a self-driving vehicle (Tesla Autopilot) causing physical injury to a pedestrian.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8