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.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, this is a dumb article. There is something to be said about biased training data, but my guess is that it’s just harder to see people who are smaller and who have darker skin. It has nothing to do with training data and just has the same issues our eyes do. There is something to be said about Tesla using only regular cameras instead of Lidar, which I don’t think would have any difference based on skin tone, but smaller things will always be harder to see.