AutonomousMedium
Tesla Sedan on Autopilot Reportedly Drove Over Dividing Curb in Washington, Resulting in Minor Vehicle Damage
- Occurred
- Aug 1, 2017
- Published
- Oct 16, 2019
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Tesla Sedan operating on Autopilot mode was not able to center itself on the road and drove over a yellow dividing curb in Redmond, Washington, causing minor damage to the vehicle’s rear suspension.
Developers
- Tesla
Deployers
- Tesla
Harmed parties
- Eric Horvitz
- Tesla drivers
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves Tesla Autopilot system failure causing minor vehicle damage, fitting autonomous vehicle category with limited harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8