AutonomousMedium
Tesla on Autopilot TACC Crashed into Van on European Highway
- Occurred
- May 26, 2016
- Published
- May 26, 2016
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Tesla Model S operating on the Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) feature of Autopilot was shown on video by its driver crashing into a parked van on a European highway in heavy traffic, which damaged the front of the car.
Developers
- Tesla
Deployers
- Tesla
Harmed parties
- unnamed Tesla owner
- Tesla drivers
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves Tesla Autopilot system failure resulting in collision, fitting autonomous vehicle category with moderate harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8