AutonomousMedium
Tesla Driver Put Car on Autopilot Before Falling Asleep in Germany
- Occurred
- Dec 28, 2022
- Published
- Dec 29, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Tesla driver fell asleep on an Autobahn near Bamberg, Germany after activating his vehicle's Autopilot mode, which did not respond to attempts to pull it over by the police.
Developers
- Tesla
Deployers
- Tesla
Harmed parties
- traffic participants
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Incident involves Tesla Autopilot system failure to respond to police, highlighting autonomous vehicle safety issues.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8