AutonomousCritical
Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot Crashed into a Ford Explorer Pickup, Killing a Fifteen-Year-Old in California
- Occurred
- Aug 24, 2019
- Published
- Jul 5, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot mode crashed into a pickup on a California freeway, where data and video from the company showed neither Autopilot nor the driver slowing the vehicle until seconds before the crash.
Developers
- Tesla
Deployers
- Tesla
Harmed parties
- Jovani Maldonado
- Benjamin Maldonado
- California public
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 98%
Rationale: Fatal crash involving autonomous driving system Autopilot.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8