New research shows driverless car software is significantly more accurate with adults and light skinned people than children and dark-skinned people.

  • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    I’m sure that will be of great comfort to any dark-skinned person or child that gets hit.

    If those are known, expected issues? Then they had better program around it before putting driverless cars out on the road where dark-skinned people and children are not theoreticals but realities.

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      1 year ago

      In order to make the software detect the same you have to make it detect white adult less.

      Comparing the performance between races says nothing about how safe a driverless car is. I am sure that the chances of a human hitting a dark skinned person dwarfs the chances of a driverless car. Trying to convince people driverless cars are racist only delays development, adoption and lawmaking which means more flawed meatbags behind the wheel which means more car accident deaths.