AutonomousMedium
Tesla's Autopilot Misidentified the Moon as Yellow Stop Light
- Occurred
- Jul 23, 2021
- Published
- Jul 23, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Tesla's Autopilot was shown on video by its owner mistaking the moon for a yellow stop light, allegedly causing the vehicle to keep slowing down.
Developers
- Tesla
Deployers
- Tesla
Harmed parties
- Tesla drivers
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Autopilot system misidentified celestial object as traffic signal, causing vehicle behavior change.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8