Self-driving cars have a blind spot: dark-skinned pedestrians

That’s the alarming finding of a study by researchers from King’s College in London and Peking University in China, who tested eight AI-based pedestrian detectors used by self-driving car manufacturers. They found a 7.5% disparity in accuracy between lighter and darker subjects, meaning that dark-skinned pedestrians are more likely to be overlooked or misidentified by the autonomous vehicles. “Bias towards dark-skin pedestrians increases significantly under scenarios of low contrast and low brightness,” said Jie M. Zhang, one of six researchers who participated in the study. <a href="https://medium.com/trendy-digests/self-driving-cars-have-a-blind-spot-dark-skinned-pedestrians-bb1e7a8f30ec">Visit Now</a>