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CSETv0 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsProblem Nature
Specification, Robustness
Physical System
Vehicle/mobile robot
Level of Autonomy
Medium
Nature of End User
Amateur
Public Sector Deployment
No
Data Inputs
360 Ultrasonic Sonar, Image Recognition Camera, Long Range Radar, traffic patterns
CSETv1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
20
Special Interest Intangible Harm
no
Date of Incident Year
2016
Date of Incident Month
05
Date of Incident Day
07
Estimated Date
No
CSETv1_Annotator-1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
20
Special Interest Intangible Harm
no
Date of Incident Year
2016
Date of Incident Month
05
Date of Incident Day
07
Estimated Date
No
Incident Reports
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A Tesla Model S with the Autopilot system activated was involved in a fatal crash, the first known fatality in a Tesla where Autopilot was active. The company revealed the crash in a blog post posted today and says it informed the National …

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A self-driving Uber car killed a pedestrian in Arizona on Sunday evening. It was in self-driving mode, occurred around 10 p.m. and there was a vehicle operator in the front seat. In an emailed statement, an Uber spokesperson wrote, “Our hea…

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Advocates of autonomy tend to cite overall improvements to road safety in a future of self-driving cars. Ninety-four percent of car crashes are caused by driver error, and both fully and partially autonomous cars could improve that number s…

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It’s the year 2025. Your driverless car has just crashed into a tree at 55mph because its built-in computer valued a pedestrian’s life above your own. Your injuries are the result of a few lines of code that were hacked out by a 26-year-old…
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LOS GATOS, California (Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) said on Friday that a Tesla Model X involved a fatal crash in California last week had activated its Autopilot system, raising new questions about the semi-autonomous system that handles …

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Tesla confirmed that its self-driving feature, Autopilot, was engaged in a fatal accident that occurred in California. Walter Huang, the driver of the Model X, struck a compressed traffic attenuator and was killed despite having Autopilot e…

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The company said the driver, Wei Huang, 38, a software engineer for Apple, had received several visual and audible warnings to put his hands back on the steering wheel but had failed to do so, even though his Model X S.U.V. had the modified…

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Electric carmaker Tesla has confirmed its "Autopilot" feature was engaged during a fatal crash last week, a development set to exacerbate concerns over the safety of futuristic vehicles.
Autopilot is still far from a completely autonomous d…

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Tesla is taking PR very seriously after one of its vehicles in autonomous mode killed a passenger recently.
The crash occurred at 9:27 AM on Highway 101 near Mountain View, California. Walter Huang was in the driver’s seat of the Model X, w…
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Earlier this week, the Tempe, Ariz., police released a video of the fatal accident involving a pedestrian and an Uber self-driving vehicle. We asked experts to analyze the footage and explain what factors may have caused systems to fail. Ph…

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Electric car company Tesla has confirmed that a recent fatal crash involving one of its vehicles occurred while the car was in autopilot mode.
Tesla released a blog post last week to provide more details about the accident on 23 March 2018,…

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The safety of Tesla Autopilot came back into focus after it was confirmed that the driver assist system was on during the fatal accident that killed a Model X owner in Mountain View last month.
Now the family of the deceased say that they a…

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Consumer-safety advocates and autonomous-vehicle experts criticized Tesla Inc. for issuing another statement about the death of a customer that pinned the blame on driver inattentiveness.
Days after publishing a second blog post about the c…

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After making repeated statements on an ongoing government investigation into a fatal crash involving Autopilot, Tesla has been kicked out of the probe being conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board for violating its legal agree…

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CLOSE The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a crash and fire involving a Telsa Model S car. Two teens died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida crash on Tuesday. The probe is not expected to involve Tesla's semi-autonomous Autopi…

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A Closer Inspection of Tesla’s Autopilot Safety Statistics
Source: Tesla, Inc.
The automotive industry is at the beginning of a grand experiment. If completely successful, humanity could be ushered into a new economy where driving is a hobb…

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Proponents of self-driving-car technology often tout one statistic: More than 37,000 people died in automotive-related accidents every year for at least the past two years.
Self-driving cars would help reduce those accidents, these people s…

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In this Sept. 29, 2015, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., introduces the Model X car at the company's headquarters in Fremont, Calif. For years, Tesla has boasted that its cars and SUVs are safer than other vehicles on the ro…
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Executive Summary Executive Summary On Friday, March 23, 2018, about 9:27 a.m., Pacific daylight time, a 2017 Tesla Model X P100D electric-powered passenger vehicle, occupied by a 38-year-old driver, was traveling south on US Highway 101 (…

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Maria Smith sat on her front porch in Holbrook and recalled her terrifying experience last December while driving home from college.
A Massachusetts State Police trooper had just stopped the 21-year-old at about 10 p.m. on Route 24 in West …

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Police are probing possible drunk-driving in the case of a Tesla driver in Arizona who said he was using the Bay Area electric car maker’s controversial “Autopilot” system when his sedan smashed into an unoccupied police vehicle, which then…

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Police in North Carolina have filed charges against a driver whose Tesla crashed into a police car early Wednesday morning, Raleigh's CBS 17 television reports. The driver admitted to officers that he had activated the Autopilot technology …
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