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Autonomous Cars Can't Recognise Pedestrians with Darker Skin Tones
« on: March 06, 2019, 09:40:56 pm »
https://interestingengineering.com/autonomous-cars-cant-recognise-pedestrians-with-darker-skin-tones?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=Mar06

by Jessica Miley · March 6, 2019

A new report shows that the systems designed to help autonomous cars recognise pedestrians may have trouble recognising people with darker skin tones. The worrying research has been uploaded to the preprint server arxiv.

Evidence already existed that some facial recognition software struggled to work with darker skin tones. But the results of the study into autonomous cars has a potentially deadly outcome.

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Re: Autonomous Cars Can't Recognise Pedestrians with Darker Skin Tones
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2019, 09:41:18 pm »
Now even the computers are racist!  :silly:
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Re: Autonomous Cars Can't Recognise Pedestrians with Darker Skin Tones
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2019, 09:44:36 pm »
   My little Texas/German town will pre order a hundred by acclimation in the next Council meeting.
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Re: Autonomous Cars Can't Recognise Pedestrians with Darker Skin Tones
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2019, 11:12:31 pm »
So if they race is it racist?
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Re: Autonomous Cars Can't Recognise Pedestrians with Darker Skin Tones
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2019, 11:13:36 pm »
So... set them to drive around the streets in high crime areas.... :whistle:
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« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2019, 11:17:56 pm »
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Re: Autonomous Cars Can't Recognise Pedestrians with Darker Skin Tones
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2019, 11:23:06 pm »
You know that even without the skin tone problem, them darn kids are going to have fun stepping in front of these fancy schmancy cars to force them to lock up their brakes, just to then pull back out of the street.
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Re: Autonomous Cars Can't Recognise Pedestrians with Darker Skin Tones
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2019, 06:23:45 pm »
Quote from: Elderberry on March 06, 2019, 11:23:06 pm
You know that even without the skin tone problem, them darn kids are going to have fun stepping in front of these fancy schmancy cars to force them to lock up their brakes, just to then pull back out of the street.
How many will do it just in the hopes of suing the owner?
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Re: Autonomous Cars Can't Recognise Pedestrians with Darker Skin Tones
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2019, 06:40:29 pm »
More white privilege.   
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