Incident 297: EasyMile Self-Driving Shuttle Unexpectedly Stopped Mid-Route, Injuring a Passenger

Description: A self-driving shuttle deployed by Smart Columbus in Linden neighborhood unexpectedly stopped on the street, which caused a woman to fall onto the floor from her seat.

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Alleged: EasyMile developed an AI system deployed by Smart Columbus, which harmed unnamed woman passenger.

Incident Stats

Incident ID

297

Report Count

Incident Date

2020-02-20

Editors

Khoa Lam

Applied Taxonomies

GMF, MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified

Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

7.3. Lack of capability or robustness

Risk Domain

AI system safety, failures, and limitations

Entity

Timing

Post-deployment

Intent

Unintentional

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

Smart Columbus halts self-driving shuttle test after unplanned stop

dispatch.com

Self-driving shuttle company ordered to stop carrying passengers after injury

theverge.com

EasyMile Self-Driving Shuttle Banned After Sudden Stop Hurts Passenger — Are Seatbelts Needed?

forbes.com

dispatch.com · 2020

Smart Columbus has parked its two self-driving shuttles in Linden after one unexpectedly stopped in the middle of a route and a woman fell from her seat onto the floor.

The shuttle had just left the Douglas Community Recreation Center on Wi…

theverge.com · 2020

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has partially suspended the US operations of France’s EasyMile after a passenger in Ohio was injured while riding in one of the company’s self-driving shuttles. EasyMile can continu…

forbes.com · 2020

Recently an EasyMile self-driving shuttle operating in Columbus, Ohio came to a sudden stop from 7mph, apparently for no visible reason. A passenger seated in the shuttle fell from her seat, sustaining minor injuries. As a result, NHTSA has…

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.