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Driverless cars worse at detecting children and darker-skinned pedestrians say scientists (www.kcl.ac.uk)
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Driverless cars worse at detecting children and darker-skinned pedestrians say scientists::Researchers call for tighter regulations following major age and race-based discrepancies in AI autonomous systems.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's almost like less contrast against a black road or smaller targets are computationally more difficult to detect or something! Weird! How about instead of this pretty clear fact, we get outraged and claim it's racism or something! Yeah!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Sue the road builders for building racist roads!

/s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If you say the cars are racist you might get the car right to buy into them....