AutonomousMedium
Tesla Autopilot Mistakes Red Letters on Flag for Red Traffic Lights
- Occurred
- Oct 22, 2020
- Published
- Oct 26, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Tesla Model 3 misidentified flags with "COOP" written vertically on them as traffic lights.
Developers
- Tesla
Deployers
- Tesla
Harmed parties
- Tesla drivers
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Tesla Autopilot misidentified visual cues, representing a safety failure in autonomous driving systems.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8