AutonomousMedium
Waze Navigates Motorists into Wildfires
- Occurred
- Dec 6, 2017
- Published
- Dec 9, 2017
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Waze, a Google-owned directions app, led California drivers into the 2017 Skirball wildfires as they tried to evacuate the area.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Motorists
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Navigation app failure led drivers into danger during wildfire evacuation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8