AutonomousMedium
Apple’s AVs Reportedly Struggled to Navigate Streets in Silicon Valley Test Drives
- Occurred
- Sep 1, 2021
- Published
- Jul 13, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Apple’s autonomous cars were reported to have bumped into curbs and struggled to stay in their lanes after crossing intersections during an on-road test drives near the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters.
Developers
- Apple
Deployers
- Apple
Harmed parties
- Silicon Valley traffic participants
- Silicon Valley residents
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves autonomous vehicle testing failures with minor physical damage but no reported injuries.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8