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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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[–] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think many driverless car companies insist on only using cameras. I guess lidars/radars are expensive.

[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They're basically the only one. Even MobilEye, who is objectively the best in the ADAS/AV space for computer vision, uses other sensors in their fleet. They have demonstrated camera only autonomy, but realize it's not worth the $1000 in sensors to risk killing people.

[–] rDrDr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even Comma.AI, which is vision-only internally, still implicitly relies on the cars built in radar for collision detection and blind spot monitoring. It's just Tesla.

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, that's because most cars aren't equipped with cameras for blind spot detection.

[–] rDrDr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thats because cameras aren't good for blind spot detection. Moreover, even for cars that have cameras on the side, the Comma doesn't use them. AFAIK, in my car with 360 cameras, the OEM system doesn't use the cameras either for blind spot.