AutonomousMedium
Waze App Allegedly Caused Tourists’ Car to End up in Lake Champlain, Vermont
- Occurred
- Jan 12, 2018
- Published
- Jan 24, 2018
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
The tourists driving through Vermont blamed Waze for directing them into a boat launch in Lake Champlain, prompting the vehicle to slide into the water by the time the drivers realized their location in the dark and foggy weather.
Developers
- Waze
Deployers
- Waze
Harmed parties
- tourists
- Waze users
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Navigation app failure led to vehicle entering water, representing a safety incident involving autonomous guidance systems.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8