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Tesla Model 3 Crashed into Police Patrol Car on Connecticut Highway
- Occurred
- Dec 7, 2019
- Published
- Dec 9, 2019
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot slammed into a parked car of patrol police officers who stopped to assist a stranded motorist on the interstate in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Developers
- Tesla
Deployers
- Tesla
Harmed parties
- Connecticut State Police
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves a self-driving vehicle (Tesla Autopilot) causing a collision with police, indicating a significant safety failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8