Incident 23: Las Vegas Self-Driving Bus Involved in Accident
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CSETv1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsHarm Distribution Basis
none
Sector of Deployment
transportation and storage
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A self-driving shuttle in Las Vegas was involved in a collision, with passengers on board, a few hours after its initial release. The Navya Arma model shuttle, developed by company Keolis North America, was backed-into by a human-driven delivery truck. The self-driving shuttle accurately detected the backing up truck and stopped its forward motion, however it did not reverse to avoid collision. The driver of the delivery truck was ticketed.
Short Description
A self-driving public shuttle developed by Keolis North America was involved in a collision with a human-driven delivery truck in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Severity
Minor
Harm Type
Harm to physical health/safety, Harm to physical property
AI System Description
Self-driving public transportation shuttles
System Developer
Keolis North America
Sector of Deployment
Transportation and storage
Relevant AI functions
Perception, Cognition, Action
AI Techniques
environment sensors, self-driving automobile, autonomous vehicle, radar, sonar
AI Applications
Self-driving automobiles, Interpreting traffic patterns
Location
Las Vegas, NV
Named Entities
Keolis North America
Technology Purveyor
Keolis North America
Beginning Date
2017-11-08T08:00:00.000Z
Ending Date
2017-11-08T08:00:00.000Z
Near Miss
Harm caused
Intent
Accident
Lives Lost
No
Infrastructure Sectors
Transportation
Data Inputs
Traffic patterns, data from cameras used to perceive the surroundings
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27 Maximum speed, in mph
12 Number of passengers it can hold
When is it on the road? The vehicle drives along east Fremont Street between Las Vegas Boulevard and Eighth Street with regular street traffic from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Innovatio…
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A self-driving shuttle bus in Las Vegas was involved in a crash on its first day of service.
The vehicle - carrying "several" passengers - collided with a lorry driving at slow speed.
Nobody was injured in the incident which city officials …
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The downtown Las Vegas self-driving shuttle isn’t exactly new. They’ve had these buses plying the strip for a while this year, with no incidents. The new shuttle is set to run a 0.6-mile loop course north of the Strip in the old downtown ar…
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Save this picture! Image via screenshot from video © Keolis Commuter Services
The drive to introduce autonomous vehicles to the roads took a blow yesterday, when a self-driving shuttle bus in Las Vegas was involved in a minor collision with…
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A truck driver is blamed for the accident, which passengers say could have been avoided if the autonomous vehicle had only reversed
It took less than two hours for Las Vegas’s brand new self-driving shuttle to end up in a crash on Wednesday…
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A new self-driving shuttle bus got off to a bumpy start in Las Vegas.
When the service debuted in the city on Wednesday, one of the driverless vehicles was involved in a collision with a delivery truck, the Las Vegas government said in a st…
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The self-driving shuttle suffered an unfortunate accident chalked up to human error just two hours after launch, but went on to complete its route regardless…
AAA in partnership with Keolis, launched the largest self-driving shuttle pilot p…
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Driverless bus in crash after two hours on road in Las Vegas
Driverless bus in crash after two hours on road in Las Vegas
The driverless bus smoothly rolls into a parking space in Las Vegas
A driverless shuttle bus has been involved in a cr…
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Sipa USA via AP
Within its first hours of operation Wednesday, an autonomous shuttle bus that is part of a ballyhooed study of driverless vehicles on public roads in Las Vegas was involved in a collision with a truck. No injuries were repor…
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None of the eight passengers aboard the driverless vehicle suffered injuries and neither did the truck driver. Instead, the front bumper of the shuttle took the brunt of the damage. A spokesperson for AAA, which is sponsoring the latest pil…
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A self-driving bus transporting passengers around downtown Las Vegas was involved in a collision with a truck on its first day of duty.
Built by French company Navya, the bus was carrying eight passengers when it collided with a truck - but…
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A self-driving shuttle bus in Las Vegas has crashed into a lorry on its first day of testing, but police have said that the human driver of the lorry was to blame and have given him a ticket.
The shuttle is the first of its kind in the US, …
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"The shuttle did what it was supposed to do, in that its sensors registered the truck and the shuttle stopped to avoid the accident," the City of Las Vegas said in a statement to KSNY. "Had the truck had the same sensing equipment that the …
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A Las Vegas-based self-driving shuttle service celebrated its launch day by getting into an accident with a human driver, according to a news report from local Nevada broadcast station KSNV News 3. The shuttle, made by French startup Navya …
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A driverless shuttle bus being tested in Las Vegas was involved in a crash an hour into its first day on the job - although it wasn't the vehicle's fault.
The eight-seater vehicle, started as a pilot of Las Vegas' smart city infrastructure,…
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It's hard not to chuckle at this one, partly for the silly situation, but also for how the blame has been shifted to the truck driver. Various media outlets are reporting a fender bender collision (literally) between a driverless shuttle bu…
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If you’re having a bad day, spare a thought for the autonomous bus that crashed in the first hour of its first day of operation. A self-driving eight-seater electric shuttle, designed to run in a continuous loop in downtown Las Vegas, becam…
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Wednesday was supposed to be the triumphant launch of a free, driverless shuttle in downtown Las Vegas. Designed by French company Navya, operated by another French company called Keolis, and sponsored by the city and American Automobile As…
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal transportation safety officials headed to Las Vegas on Friday to investigate a collision this week between a self-driving shuttle bus on its first day of service and a truck, which was blamed on human error.
T…
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This was the first crash to have happened involving a self-driving vehicle operating in public service
Federal transportation safety officials headed to Las Vegas on Friday to investigate a collision this week between a self-driving s…
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Last week, a driverless shuttle in Las Vegas had its inaugural day of operation derailed, when a truck backed into it at a super-slow speed. The minor bump may seem inconsequential, but since it involved an autonomous vehicle and a human mo…
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota. The bus had only been on the road for two hours when it crashed. A self-driving shuttle was launched in Las Vegas to great celebration and acclaim. It is designed to move passengers through the city on a 0.6-mile-lon…
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(TNS) — After a pedestrian was hit and killed Sunday by an Uber self-driving car in Arizona, the city of Las Vegas said it has no plans to take its driverless shuttle off the road.
The Uber vehicle was in autonomous mode with an operator be…
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Before it crashed, dozens of people had lined up to get a free trip on a 0.6-mile loop around Fremont East, Las Vegas, including Nascar driver Danica Patrick and magic duo Penn and Teller
Nov 11, 2017-It took less than two hours for Las Veg…
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