EVERYTHING IS RACIST
BECAUSE---WHY-PEEPOOL
Posted on 06/30/2021 10:17:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
Uh, say again?
Fully autonomous cars are not here yet but they're coming. Vehicles like the Tesla Model S have helped pave the way forward with its Autopilot system. But different automakers have been offering different timelines as to when this will ultimately happen, and there's still a lot more R&D that needs to happen, as well as safety assurances and government approval. As this technology is being developed, new issues are being discovered that require solutions, and one of the latest discoveries is a bit controversial, to say the least.
According to a new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology, people with darker skin may be more likely to get hit by a self-driving car than those with lighter skin tones. How is this possible? Well, the answer begins with a question the study's authors wanted to find out: How well do the latest object-detection systems used in self-driving cars detect people of different ethnicities?
To get an answer, the researchers examined a large database of pedestrian images and then divided them up according to what's called the Fitzpatrick scale, which is a system for classifying skin tones. The team then analyzed how often these systems correctly detected the presence of people of varying skin tones. In other words, a light-skinned group versus a dark-skinned group.
The results speak for themselves.
The overall detection rate was an average of five percentage points less accurate for the dark-skinned group. What's more, this difference remained even when researchers applied controls for variables like time of day and even obstructed views of those pedestrians.
"We give evidence that standard models for the task of object detection, trained on standard datasets, appear to exhibit higher precision on lower Fitzpatrick skin types than higher skin types," the study's authors concluded. "This behavior appears on large images of pedestrians, and even grows when we remove occluded pedestrians."
The report itself is titled very appropriately "Predictive Inequity in Object Detection," but it's also important to know it has not yet been peer-reviewed, meaning other researchers outside of this group have yet to duplicate the study and then compare those results with the original ones. If those additional findings match, then automakers will quickly need to fix these "racist" detection systems. No doubt this is going to be very interesting.
FOrget self driving cars, I want a FLYING CAR like on the Jetsons tv show when I was a kid! Beautiful, too!
Flying car completes first-ever test flight between airports in 35 minutes!!!!
IBNTB
Well, for once I am on board with this one, otherwise they plan to outlaw human drivers ...
We live in Lago Vista, NW of Austin on Lake Travis. Every other car is a Tesla, Porsche, Maserati, etc. out here.... We NEED flying cars!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which will be very important in nudeland.
Every morning, I wake up and the first thing I think of is,
“What can I do today to hurt Americans of African Descent?”
Actually, I wonder if there are any muffins.
Dress in white at night.
You can eliminate the “skin” and “people”. The problem is it identifies light colored objects better than darker colored objects, regardless of what the object is. That simple. But no. Let’s twist it a little to fit the pushed narrative...
> The overall detection rate was an average of five percentage points less accurate for the dark-skinned group. <
Okay. I’ll accept that. So maybe there is a design flaw in the system - one that needs to be corrected. But does anyone really believe that racist engineers designed the system that way, on purpose?
Oh, wait. What am I talking about? Everything last thing is racist. Silly me. Everybody knows that.
I’ll bet that’s true for human drivers as well, regardless of the race of the driver.
Any car a black cannot afford is racist.
Will self-driving cars have a lower accident rate than cars driven by members of various ethnic groups? More study needed.
Self driving cars are themselves racist. “Actual facts” show black drivers break speed limits way more often than white ones.
Thus, if self driving cars are programmed to proceed at the speed limit, blacks will be disproportionately affected.
Bingo! disparate impact automatically means racism!
Hmmmm…..
Yes…..
I see…..
Undoubtedly…..
Goes without saying…..
Is that a duck over there?
Black cat ain’t got a chance…..
You could just as easily say the cars discriminate against rednecks because of a cultural tendency to wear cammo.
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