AutonomousMedium
Cruise's Self-Driving Cars Allegedly Lost Connection to Their Server, Causing Traffic Blockages in San Francisco
- Occurred
- May 18, 2022
- Published
- May 22, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Cruise’s autonomous vehicles were shown on video stopping in the middle of the road and causing blockages in San Francisco, as they were disabled allegedly due to lost connection to their company’s server.
Developers
- Cruise
Deployers
- Cruise
Harmed parties
- San Francisco traffic participants
- San Francisco public
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves autonomous vehicles causing traffic blockages due to technical failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8