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Originally Posted by Rollfast
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2...icle-dark-skin

So now autonomous cars are also 'racially biased'? Not in a conventional sense, but they have trouble seeing dark skinned pedestrians.

But they can see dark cars?

A bit crazy.
I know someone who swears up and down that fully autonomous self-driving cars are not only the "wave of the future," BUT that they'll be here LONG before the actual experts have predicted that they'll be here. Not only that but he thinks that they'll "replace" public/mass transit, and that they'll be a boon to both cyclist, but pedestrian safety.

About the only thing that I agree with him with regards to fully autonomous self-driving cars, is that we as cyclists and pedestrians shouldn't have to wear any sort of transponder so that they'll know where we are.

He is also very surprised that people are still talking about the failures from companies like Tesla and Uber instead of all of the successes.
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