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Driverless Cars May Struggle to Spot Children, Dark-Skinned People
Some pedestrians may be less reliably detected by driverless cars than others.
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Scientists in the U.K. and China evaluated eight artificial intelligence (AI)-based pedestrian detectors used in driverless car research, and found they may have difficulty detecting children and dark-skinned people.
The researchers learned the detectors' accuracy identifying adults was nearly 20% higher than it was for children, and 7.5% higher for light-skinned pedestrians versus those with dark skin.
Jie Zhang at the U.K.'s King's College London said while automakers' software details are confidential, they are usually based on existing open source models, which "must also have similar issues."
Carissa Véliz at the U.K.'s University of Oxford said these problems must be corrected before deploying AI systems in cars on real roads, although engineers must ensure their remedies do not intentionally harm overall safety.
From New Scientist
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