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

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      because proper driverless cares properly use LIDAR, which doesn’t give a shit about your skin color.

      And can easily see an object the size of a child out to many metres in front, and doesn’t give a shit if its a child or not. It’s an object in the path or object with a vector that will about to be in the path.

      So change 'Driverless Cars" to “Elon’s poor implementation of a Driverless Car”

      Or better yet…

      “Camera only AI-powered pedestrian detection systems” are Worse at Spotting Kids and Dark-Skinned People

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        Ok, but this isn’t just about Elon and Tesla?

        The study examined eight AI-powered pedestrian detection systems used for autonomous driving research.

        They tested multiple systems to see this problem.

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      First impression I got is driverless cars are worst at detecting kids and black people than drivers

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        I think that’s more it’s a headline that can be misinterpreted than misleading. I read it as it was detailed later, as worse are spotting kids and dark-skinned folks than at adults and light-skinned people. It can be ambiguous.