Life or Death in Two Seconds: The Smart Driving Chaos Behind the Fatal Xiaomi Car Crash—Every Owner Must Read!
生死两秒：小米汽车致命车祸背后的智驾迷局，所有车主必看！ - 汽车之家
A Xiaomi SU7 was traveling at 116 km/h on the Dezhou-Shanghai Expressway on March 29 when its NOA system issued an obstacle warning, leaving the driver only about two seconds to react. The vehicle hit a cement barrier at 97 km/h and caught fire, killing three university students inside. The article criticizes the short warning time, the gap between marketing claims and driver responsibility disclaimers, and calls for stricter smart driving safety standards.
- Company involved
- Xiaomi
- AI system involved
- NOA
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EasyMile ordered to stop carrying passengers after injury in Ohio
A passenger was injured while riding in an EasyMile self-driving shuttle in Columbus, Ohio, when the vehicle made an emergency stop from 7 mph, causing the passenger to fall from their seat. The passenger sought medical attention, and the local transportation project Smart Columbus halted the service. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) partially suspended EasyMile's US operations, prohibiting the company from carrying passengers while it investigates the incident.
- Company involved
- EasyMile
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Honda's Collision Mitigation Braking System Slams Brakes Unexpectedly
A Honda vehicle's Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS) suddenly applied the brakes without warning while driving, causing whiplash and near-accidents. The system falsely detected obstacles due to software flaws. A class-action lawsuit, Cadena v. American Honda Motor Co., alleges that Honda knew of the defect and failed to warn consumers, seeking damages for injuries and property damage. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has received multiple complaints about the issue.
- Company involved
- American Honda Motor Co.
- AI system involved
- Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS)
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AI deepfake of actor Kamen Donev used in Facebook ad for joint pain product
In April 2024, anonymous Facebook pages sponsored deepfake videos of Bulgarian actor Kamen Donev and other public figures to advertise a joint pain cream. The manipulated footage, taken from a television appearance, used AI-generated audio and altered lip movements to falsely depict Donev endorsing the product. Clicking the ad led to a fabricated article imitating a news site, which served as a sales platform for a product not available in pharmacies.
- Company involved
- Anonymous Facebook pages
- AI system involved
- ElevenLabs
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Meta's Advantage Plus AI ad tool overspends and underperforms for advertisers
In February 2024, Meta's automated ad platform Advantage Plus began malfunctioning, causing advertisers' costs per impression to skyrocket and blowing through daily budgets without delivering sales. Multiple marketers reported that the AI-driven tool ignored cost caps and performed unpredictably, leading some to halt its use. Meta acknowledged a platform bug on February 14 and issued refunds to some, but problems persisted into April, with the company claiming the system was working as expected for most.
- Company involved
- Meta
- AI system involved
- Advantage Plus
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Waymo Issues Voluntary Recall After Self-Driving Cars Illegally Pass School Buses
Waymo's self-driving vehicles illegally passed stopped school buses in Austin, Texas, on at least 19 occasions, including one where a student was still in the road. The Austin Independent School District reported the violations, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation. Waymo issued a voluntary software recall and claimed a November 2025 update fixed the issue, but the school district alleges at least five further violations occurred after the update. The recall does not remove vehicles from the road; Waymo will push further software fixes.
- Company involved
- Waymo
- AI system involved
- 5th Generation Automated Driving System
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Dutch Man Fined $400 by AI Camera for Scratching His Head
Tim Hansen was fined €380 by a Monocam AI camera system that mistakenly identified his hand near his ear as a mobile phone while driving. Hansen, an IT specialist, explained that the system likely misclassified the gesture due to a training dataset lacking images of empty hands. He is disputing the fine and awaiting a ruling, which may take up to 26 weeks. The incident has raised concerns about the reliability of AI traffic cameras in the Netherlands.
- AI system involved
- Monocam
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DeSantis campaign ad used AI-generated photos of Trump and Fauci
A Ron DeSantis campaign video attacking Donald Trump included images that experts told AFP were probably AI-generated. The ad, shared on 5 June 2023, mixed authentic photographs with fabricated images of Trump kissing Anthony Fauci. Media forensics experts identified inconsistent textures, unreadable text and anatomical irregularities. AFP found no original sources, and the campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
- Company involved
- DeSantis campaign
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Austin council demands Waymo meeting after cars blocked first responders
Austin City Council member Zo Qadri and colleagues sent a letter to Waymo after a March 1 autonomous vehicle allegedly stopped on a street near a mass shooting, requiring an officer to move it. The city wants to discuss emergency-response procedures at a joint committee meeting on April 29. Waymo had not responded to the letter as of the interview, and the council member expressed frustration that the city lacks authority to regulate autonomous vehicles on its streets.
- Company involved
- Waymo
- AI system involved
- Waymo Driver
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Arity collected drivers' data via apps for insurance scores
Popular smartphone apps including Life360, MyRadar and GasBuddy reportedly shared users' location and motion data with Arity, an Allstate-owned company. Arity used the data to calculate driving scores that could be sold to car insurers to set rates. Users were said not to be clearly informed that their data would be used for insurance pricing. Life360 and Arity stated that users had to opt in and that no personally identifiable driving data was shared without consent.
- Company involved
- Arity
- AI system involved
- Arity IQ network
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Gamma AI Presentation Tool Exploited in Multi-Stage Phishing Campaign
Threat actors used Gamma, an AI-powered presentation builder, to host a page that redirected recipients to a fake Microsoft SharePoint login portal. Emails sent from compromised legitimate accounts passed authentication checks, while a Cloudflare Turnstile blocked automated security scanners. An adversary-in-the-middle framework validated credentials in real time and captured session cookies, enabling multi-factor authentication bypass on Microsoft accounts. Abnormal reported the campaign on 15 April 2025.
- AI system involved
- Gamma
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Claude AI abused in influence-as-a-service campaign
Malicious actors exploited Anthropic's Claude AI to manage over 100 social media bot accounts, engaging tens of thousands of users worldwide. The AI made tactical decisions on bot interactions to promote political narratives. Anthropic responded by banning implicated accounts and enhancing detection systems. The incident highlights the dual-use risks of advanced AI models.
- AI system involved
- Claude AI
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Waymo recalls robotaxi software after crash into telephone pole
On May 21, 2024, a Waymo autonomous vehicle crashed into a telephone pole in Phoenix, Arizona, while driving to a passenger pickup location. The vehicle was damaged but no one was injured. Waymo issued a voluntary recall and updated the software and mapping for its entire fleet of 672 vehicles to correct an error that assigned a low damage score to the pole and to improve the map.
- Company involved
- Waymo
- AI system involved
- Waymo autonomous vehicle
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Truck drivers sue Motive over AI dash cam mass surveillance
Truck drivers Adam Dean and Christian Erickson filed a class action lawsuit against Motive Technologies Inc., alleging that the company's AI-powered dash cams with automatic license plate readers collected license plate data and tracked drivers' movements without consent. The lawsuit, filed in California federal court, claims violations of California's ALPR Law and seeks damages of $2,500 per class member. The drivers allege privacy invasion and emotional distress from the surreptitious surveillance.
- Company involved
- Motive Technologies Inc.
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Woody Nora v. M & A Transport, Inc., et al. (E.D. Louisiana): AI-hallucinated content in court filing, Monetary Sanction; 1…
The AI tool generated fictitious case law citations that were included in a court filing, affecting the plaintiff and the court.
- AI system involved
- Westlaw Precision
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Tesla's Full Self-Driving beta includes assertive mode that may perform rolling stops
Tesla's Full Self-Driving beta software includes driving profiles, including an 'Assertive' mode that may perform rolling stops, follow cars more closely, and change lanes more frequently. The feature was included in an October 2021 update that was briefly pulled due to issues with left turns. In November 2021, a Tesla using FSD mode was involved in a crash that left the vehicle severely damaged.
- Company involved
- Tesla
- AI system involved
- Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta
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Waymo passenger flees robotaxi stuck on Phoenix light rail tracks
A Waymo self-driving car mistakenly drove onto light rail tracks in Phoenix, forcing a passenger to flee the vehicle. The incident occurred near moving trains before the car continued along the tracks. Valley Metro confirmed it was notified and responded, and Waymo was contacted.
- Company involved
- Waymo
- AI system involved
- Waymo
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Waymo self-driving taxi blocks road after confusion with traffic cones
A Waymo self-driving taxi in Phoenix, Arizona, became confused by traffic cones closing a lane and stopped, blocking the road. The vehicle repeatedly drove away from roadside assistance dispatched to help, before a human driver took over. Waymo acknowledged the incident, stating that its remote guidance team provided incorrect instructions and that it has since improved its operational process. The passenger, who documented the event, said such mistakes are rare.
- Company involved
- Waymo
- AI system involved
- Waymo Driver
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Researchers demonstrate drone attack on Renault Captur ADAS with fake road signs
Security researchers from Ben Gurion University demonstrated a vulnerability in the Mobileye ADAS system used in a Renault Captur. They used drones to project fake road signs for 100 milliseconds, too quick for human perception but detectable by the system. The attack could trick the car into making unsafe maneuvers, though the system is only Level 0 (advisory). The researchers published their findings in a paper titled 'MobilBye: Attacking ADAS with Camera Spoofing'.
- AI system involved
- Mobileye ADAS
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ViaQuatro's facial recognition system in São Paulo metro challenged in court
In April 2018, ViaQuatro installed the Digital Interactive Doors System, developed by AdMobilize, on the São Paulo metro's yellow line. The system used cameras to detect passengers' faces and claimed to infer their emotion, age, and gender in order to target advertisements. The Brazilian Institute of Consumer Protection (IDEC) filed a public civil action alleging that the system violated consumer and data protection laws by processing biometric data without consent and making pseudoscientific and discriminatory inferences. A judge ordered the cameras removed in August 2018, and the case is pending a final ruling.
- Company involved
- ViaQuatro
- AI system involved
- Digital Interactive Doors System (DID system)
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Adobe uses Creative Cloud user data to train AI
Adobe's content analysis feature may scan Creative Cloud and Document Cloud files to train machine learning models, including object recognition in Lightroom and Liquid Mode in Acrobat. The company says it may analyze images, audio, video, text and other documents stored on its servers. Adobe offers an opt-out in account privacy settings, but the article notes the company did not ask first.
- Company involved
- Adobe
- AI system involved
- Content analysis
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Stable Diffusion amplifies racial and gender stereotypes in generated images
An analysis by Bloomberg of over 5,000 images generated by Stability AI's Stable Diffusion found that the text-to-image model amplifies racial and gender stereotypes. The model overrepresented lighter-skinned men in high-paying jobs and darker-skinned people in low-paying jobs, and underrepresented women in positions of power. Stability AI acknowledged the inherent biases in its models and stated it is working on mitigation.
- Company involved
- Stability AI
- AI system involved
- Stable Diffusion
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Adobe Stock offers AI-generated images inspired by Ansel Adams, violating its own ethics policy
The estate of Ansel Adams publicly criticised Adobe for offering AI-generated images on Adobe Stock that were 'inspired by' Adams' work, violating Adobe's own contributor terms that prohibit using artist names in prompts. Adobe acknowledged the violation and removed the images, but the estate claimed it had contacted the company multiple times since August 2023 without resolution.
- Company involved
- Adobe
- AI system involved
- Adobe Stock
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams uses AI deepfake robocalls without disclosure
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that his office has been using AI-generated deepfake robocalls in multiple languages since March 2022. The calls, created using Eleven Labs' Voice Lab, do not disclose that they are artificially generated, leading New Yorkers to believe the mayor speaks languages he does not. Advocacy group STOP condemned the practice as deceptive and unethical.
- Company involved
- New York City
- AI system involved
- Voice Lab by Eleven Labs
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