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

    Cost being used as an excuse not to expand the data set to represent all types of people is just excusing systemic racism and other discrimination. For example, if the system requires two arms for it to recognize a person that is also a problem, because a person comes in a wife variety of shapes, sizes, and colors.

    If the system can’t handle that then it doesn’t regocnize people. If it costs too much to do right, then that means they can’t afford to do it at all.