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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A single flir camera would help massively. They don't care about colour or height. Only temperature.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I could make a warm water balloon in the shape of a human and it would stop the car then. Maybe a combination of all various types of technologies? You'd still have to train the model on all various kinds of humans though.