This is what happens when a company has no diversity. Most companies dogfood their own production. Reminds me of Google's gorilla situation...
160This happens even on newer Toyotas, so it's not exactly company-specific. The issue is the biased training data used for the face recognition system.
69Google's gorilla situation?
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Classic case of OWPITTS (only white people in the training set).
135I am guessing the car wasn't made by Subaru or Nissan and is from Ford, GMC, Tesla, BMW, or Mercedes.
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There's an episode of American Auto where they make a self-driving car that can't see black people. It's a good show. Check it out.
59Sounds like a similar episode of Better Off Ted. Also a great show that only got 2 seasons.
23It's all fun and games until the octochicken comes down from its web.
7God I loved that show, especially that episode. If they'd made it a few years later, it most certainly would've been picked up by one of the streaming services for more seasons.
4One of my faves. I still think of the line from that episode "but we don't have the parking for that" whenever I walk past a car desert
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I'm not really in the mood for a documentary
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What does the system do when you wear sunglasses?
55Automatically voids the warranty
15Shh...you're giving them ideas.
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Maybe we could add mandatory accessoires.
You have to wear blood pressure, respiratory and heart rate sensors while driving.
Additionaly these could be made available to insurance companies for a small reduction in fees from 115% to 105%, so it feels cheaper while they tell you it's for your own benefit.
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My car keeps screaming at me to keep my hands on the wheel, WHILE I'M FUCKING HOLDING IT.
53Dude. I'm never buying a new car. That shit is insane.
20You black with a black steering wheel or white with a white one?
11My car's lane assist deactivates if the road is too straight because I haven't moved the steering wheel in too long. The only way to get it back is to swerve a bit.
9My FIL shared that the lane assist tried to swerve into oncoming traffic shortly after they bought their new car with all the assist bells and whistles. On the other hand my MIL shouldn't be driving and genuinely had the drowsy assist force her to be a bit safer. I'm seriously waiting for the day she finally loses her license either for drunk driving or just speeding/tailgating/illegally passing etc. excessively
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Your car (Tesla?) has no sensors on the wheel that can detect your hands. That’s why you need to jerk the wheel every couple of seconds.
5So, what you are saying is, i"m driving too good, so the car thinks I'm not there? And we want to let those dumb things drive themselves?
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Lol just like the old Xbox Kinect failing miserably at seeing dark skinned black people correctly or at all
40There was also a automatic soap dispenser that couldn't see dark skin.
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There’s a Better Off Ted episode that hilariously addressed this issue.
33That show should have more seasons.
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Sorry asians. You know what you have to do.
32My Ford transit kept telling me to pull over to rest. It was a windy day.
29My wife's Asian and only been driving 3-years. LMFAO, she would be a shaking crying mess if the car kept yelling at her to pay attention.
27Car manufacturer tried to make a safer and more attentive driver through monitor and warning systems, accidentally causes crippling anxiety instead.
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I'm sure it is possible to disable this feature?
22You'd think they'd have learned from all the cameras that can't see black people....
This is racist as shit.
18It's actually probably not racist as shit.
I'm white with larger eyes. My car tells me the same thing. Constantly.
Yes I understand that facial recognition software is usually racist as shit, but this particular situation may just be shitty software rather than racist shitty software.
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I remember this episode from Better Off Ted.
16i'ld try to stick some googly eyes on a headband to wear when driving. if it does not help, its at least good for a selfie.
14Can people see why "DEI" programs are genuinely good things yet?
14Just in case anyone doesn't know the acronym: DEI is Diversity, equity, and inclusion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion
7I can see small teams not having the personal to account for every possiblity, but this should have gotten picked up in testing and not made it to production. There was an automatic soap dispenser that couldn't see dark skin, but that didn't make it to full scale production.
6I mean I just liked them because you actually learn more about other perspectives...plus other cultures are pretty dope too....the white power idiots need to go out and realize white town is creepy and unpleasant.
3white town is creepy and unpleasant
And simultaneously incredibly boring! There's only so much alcohol and casseroles I can be entertained by...
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My white guy sucks
9I love this show, and this episode.
5The irony of a strike killing it is honestly pretty amusing in hindsight, but that doesn't give us the six seasons and a movie it deserved.
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Removing Google tracker for ya (Piped)
”I am not a bot, and this action was performed manually”
4Yeah I'm always a little lazy about that because I'm on Android anyways
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Reminds me of this.
7I was expecting this YouTube classic
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There has to be a way to calibrate it, no? Something like this can't be designed without setting a baseline, and surely there's a ton of variance.
7For the manufacturer sure, the driver can't do jack until there is a system update or recall.
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My integra doesn't have cameras but it monitors steering input and the road lines. I turned it off immediately but a family member of mine got frustrated because it would go off on him all the time in his Ford f150.
He often looks for deer while driving and can't drive in a straight line because of it and that drifting to the center line/ edge of the road results in the system telling him to pull over and rest.
I'd assume unless he has a fancy German car he's probably texting while driving or really bad at driving in a straight line. No mass market brand is going to bother installing cameras in the cab unless you are buying fairly expensive luxury car.
Edit: or it's Toyota with their annoying systems. I wouldn't know I avoid cars that scream at you for any little unsafe things it thinks you are doing. Toyota has eye tracking in their new cars and it beeps at you if you look away from the road for a fraction of a second from what I've heard.
2how do people not realise how creepy it is for a car to have EYE-TRACKING
3It's creepy but systems like Toyota use infrared and looks for a reflection in your pupils.
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Not mild, full blown racist
1Asian women are more beautiful. That's my professional opinion. I'm sure I'd think the same about the men if I was into that.
-37WTF u mean « my professional opinion »
5I was paid for that opinion.
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