AutonomousMedium
Self-driving cars in winter
- Occurred
- Feb 10, 2016
- Published
- Feb 10, 2016
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Volvo autonomous driving XC90 SUV's experienced issues in Jokkmokk, Sweden when sensors used for automated driving iced over during the winter, rendering them useless.
Developers
- Volvo
Deployers
- Volvo
Harmed parties
- drivers in Jokkmokk
- drivers in Sweden
- Volvo
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Volvo autonomous vehicles failed in winter conditions due to sensor icing, representing a notable technical failure without reported casualties.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8