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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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[–] zephyreks@programming.dev -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

If the computer vision model can't detect edges around a human-shaped object, that's usually a dataset issue or a sensor (data collection) issue... And it sure as hell isn't a sensor issue because humans do the task just fine.

[–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Do they? People driving at night quite often have a hard time seeing pedestrians wearing dark colors.

[–] duffman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

And it sure as hell isn't a sensor issue because humans do the task just fine.

Sounds like you have never reviewed dash camera video or low light photography.

[–] rDrDr@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Which cars are equipped with human eyes for sensors?