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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    1 year ago

    In some cases the data sets were only white, but engineers have been cognisant of this issue for decades so I don’t think that’s as common as you might believe. More frequently it’s just physics.

    As for “putting in the effort,” companies are doing this, to their detriment. Ensuring that a small proportion of their customer base has a perfect experience is very expensive. In business the calculation between cost and profit is very important. If you’re arguing that companies should provide unprofitable products so that your sensibilities can be assuaged then I disagree. No company has a duty to provide a product to you.

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      1 year ago

      No company has a duty to provide a product to you.

      A company making driverless cars damn well does have a duty to make sure their program doesn’t run over children.

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      Ensuring that a small proportion of their customer base has a perfect experience is very expensive.

      We are talking about that portion of the population being hit by cars.