Tag: self-driving cars

• Prejudice, tech’s systemic issues and responsive images

  15 March 2019

  The best bookmarks I saved in Week 11, 2019.

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• A new study finds a potential risk with self-driving cars: failure to detect dark-skinned pedestrians

  8 March 2019

  Written by Sigal Samuel on Vox.

  “The list of concerns about self-driving cars just got longer. 

  In addition to worrying about how safe they are, how they’d handle tricky moral trade-offs on the road, and how they might make traffic worse, we also need to worry about how they could harm people of color. 

  If you’re a person with dark skin, you may be more likely than your white friends to get hit by a self-driving car, according to a new study out of the Georgia Institute of Technology. That’s because automated vehicles may be better at detecting pedestrians with lighter skin tones.”

  Read ‘A new study finds a potential risk with self-driving cars: failure to detect dark-skinned pedestrians’ on the Vox site.

  Tagged with: self-driving cars, systemic discrimination.