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NJ Transit's Use of Modeling Software Miscalculated Storm Surge Threat Level
- Occurred
- Dec 10, 2012
- Published
- May 13, 2013
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
New Jersey Transit's use of a federal government storm modeling software underestimated the threat of storm surges to the Meadows Maintenance Complex, leaving millions of dollars worth of equipment in the rail yard before Hurricane Sandy struck.
Developers
- National Weather Service
Deployers
- New Jersey Transit
Harmed parties
- New Jersey Transit
- New Jersey Transit passengers
Classification
Category confidence: 80%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Software modeling failure caused financial loss but does not fit specific AI safety categories like LLM or AGENT.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8