AutonomousMedium
Apple Maps Allegedly Directed Ski Trip Couple Onto Unpaved Road in the Mountains
- Occurred
- Feb 1, 2019
- Published
- Feb 22, 2019
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Near Los Angeles, Apple Maps allegedly directed a couple on a ski trip in the mountains toward into an unconventional route out of town, where the drivers found themselves lost and stuck on an unpaved road in the snow.
Developers
- Apple
Deployers
- Apple
Harmed parties
- tourists
- Apple Maps users
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Navigation system error caused users to get lost in hazardous conditions, representing a failure in autonomous routing.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8