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(#2) A Self-Driving Car Killed A Pedestrian
One of the first deaths by self-driving car occurred in March 2018. A car owned by Uber struck and killed a female pedestrian. The self-driving system detected a human six seconds before the crash, but didn't take action to prevent the collision.
The car had an emergency braking system, but it was turned off to prevent "erratic driving." Engineers failed, however, to program the car to alert the operator to brake.
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(#5) An Automated Cannon Malfunctioned And Killed Nine Soldiers In South Africa
In 2007, an advanced piece of military machinery designed to identify targets for its human users to shoot malfunctioned in South Africa. It killed nine people when it began to shoot on its own, emptying 250 rounds at a training center.
The Oerlikon GDF-005 is built to spot aircraft. It's connected to 35mm guns, which can automatically reload. The technology likely jammed and malfuntioned, leading to numerous casualties.
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(#8) A Robot Impaled A Man With Huge Metal Spikes
A man working at a porcelain factory in Hunan, China, was hospitalized in 2018 after a falling robot arm impaled him with 10 large metal spikes. The spikes punctured the man's shoulder, chest, and wrist, leaving him unable to use his right arm.
Each spike was 11 inches long, and one narrowly missed an artery.
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(#10) A Robot Entered An Unauthorized Location And Killed A Woman
In 2015, a robot killed Wanda Holbrook, who was responsible for machine inspections and maintenance at a stamping and molding company in Michigan. The robot entered an unauthorized area and malfunctioned. It attempted to place a hitch assembly where one already was, crushing Holbrook in the process.
A coworker found Holbrook unresponsive; emergency responders pronounced her dead at the scene.
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(#12) A Family Nearly Died In The Desert After A GPS Device Led Them In Circles
The Cooper family visited Death Valley during the summer of 2010 and got lost when their GPS device directed them down a small dirt path. The family was missing for three days but fortunately made it out of the desert alive.
One mother and son were not so lucky - they got lost for five days after their GPS misdirected them. The boy died before authorities discovered the pair, and his mom barely survived.
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(#1) Samsung Smartphones Exploded En Masse
When Samsung released the faulty Galaxy Note 7 to compete with Apple's iPhone, it nearly sank the company. Just a few weeks before the US release in August 2016, users in South Korea reported their phones were catching fire and in some cases exploding. The potentially dangerous mistake cost Samsung $26 billion in stock.
The US issued a recall of the Note 7 in September 2016 and again in October 2016 when Samsung sent out replacement units that had the same issue.
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With the continuous improvement of intelligent technology, various intelligent inventions are becoming more and more common in life and work. But are intelligent robots really safe? There have been many accidents caused by robot failures in the world. We need to know there is no real self-aware robot yet, and all robot work is controlled by programming, but people must realize that it is terrible when robots lose control.
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