AutonomousCritical
Tesla Model X on Autopilot Missed Parked Vehicles and Pedestrians, Killing Motorcyclist in Japan
- Occurred
- Apr 29, 2018
- Published
- May 1, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Tesla Model X operated on Autopilot reportedly failed to recognize the parked motorcycles, pedestrians, and van in its path in Kanagawa, Japan, and ran over a motorcyclist who previously stopped when a member of his motorcyclist group was involved in an accident.
Developers
- Tesla
Deployers
- Tesla
Harmed parties
- Yoshihiro Umeda
- Pedestrians
- Tesla drivers
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 95%
Rationale: Self-driving vehicle Autopilot failure resulted in a fatality.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8