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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] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im guessing it can’t detect them as objects at all, not that it can’t classify them as humans.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That seems like the car is relying way too much on video to detect surroundings...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sooo.... like the Tesla?

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

Haha yes, but from the article I got the impression it was across all tested brands. Tesla is being called out at the moment for not having the appropriate hardware that other brands are using (e.g. LIDAR).