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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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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Weird question, but why does a car need to know if it's a person or not? Like regardless of if it's a person or a car or a pole, maybe don't drive into it?

Is it about predicting whether it's going to move into your path? Well can't you just just LIDAR to detect an object moving and predict the path, why does it matter if it's a person?

Is it about trolley probleming situations so it picks a pole instead of a person if it can't avoid a crash?

[–] almar_quigley@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Haquer 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 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).

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