Incident #347·AI Safety & Failures
Waymo Self-Driving Taxi Reportedly Behaved Unexpectedly, Driving away from Support Crew
Explainability
Description
A Waymo self-driving taxi car was reportedly shown on video stranded on a road in Arizona while carrying a passenger, suddenly driving away from the company's roadside assistance worker, and ended up being stuck farther down the road.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- waymo
Alleged Developers
- waymo
Harmed Parties
- waymo-passengers
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
MIT Risk Profile
AIUnintentionalPost-deployment
Topics
Explainability
Source
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