AutonomousHigh
Sleeping Driver on Tesla AutoPilot
- Occurred
- Dec 1, 2018
- Published
- Jan 22, 2018
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Tesla Model S remained on autopilot while being operated by a drunk, sleeping operator whose hands were not on the wheel. The police had to slow the car down by slowing in front of the vehicle to activate its 'driver assist' feature .
Developers
- Tesla
Deployers
- Tesla
- Motorist
Harmed parties
- Motorists
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Tesla AutoPilot incident involving drunk driver and police intervention due to safety risk.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8