AutonomousCritical
A Tesla Crashed into and Killed a Road Sweeper on a Highway in China
- Occurred
- Jan 20, 2016
- Published
- Feb 28, 2018
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Tesla Model S collided with and killed a road sweeper on a highway near Handan, China, an accident where Tesla previously said it was not able to determine whether Autopilot was operating at the time of the crash.
Developers
- Tesla
Deployers
- Tesla
Harmed parties
- Gao Yaning
- Tesla drivers
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Fatal accident involving a self-driving vehicle system (Autopilot) resulting in death.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8