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Tesla Autopilot Misidentified On-Road Horse-Drawn Carriage

Occurred
Aug 15, 2022
Published
Aug 20, 2020
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

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.

Developers

  • Tesla

Deployers

  • Tesla

Harmed parties

  • Tesla drivers
  • horse-drawn carriages

Classification

Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: Tesla Autopilot is an autonomous vehicle system misidentifying a hazard, posing potential safety risks.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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