Driverless Cars Are Worse at Spotting Kids and Dark-Skinned People, Study Says - eviltoast

New research shows driverless car software is significantly more accurate with adults and light skinned people than children and dark-skinned people.

  • derpgon@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I would say it’s because dark stuff on dark background is harder to detect than other way around. Roads are dark, shadows are dark, pavement is sometimes dark, houses are quite often dark, so it blends.

    I’d rather call for more powerful algorithms than bigger data sets.