RVonse
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- Basic Beliefs
- that people in the US are living in the matrx
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/...acial-bias-study-autonomous-vehicle-dark-skin
On a personal level I've noticed its not just the autonomous cars that are biased, I think I might be biased myself. I work at all hours and frequently drive to and from work during night time and where I live the area is open and have had many close calls with deer. But where I work the driving experience is even more perilous, an impoverished area with many black people jaywalking across the road. From many first hand near misses, I can say that black people are very difficult to see at night. If I were a black person, the last thing I would do is jaywalk at night in front of a moving car. But for some reason they do it all the time in that area as though the cars will not ever hit them. IMO, the deer are much easier to see and avoid than the black people who jaywalk. Both are unexpected and unpredictable, but the deer are lighter in color and easier to see. Furthermore, hitting a deer is just damage to my car....hitting a person is far more tragic.
On a personal level I've noticed its not just the autonomous cars that are biased, I think I might be biased myself. I work at all hours and frequently drive to and from work during night time and where I live the area is open and have had many close calls with deer. But where I work the driving experience is even more perilous, an impoverished area with many black people jaywalking across the road. From many first hand near misses, I can say that black people are very difficult to see at night. If I were a black person, the last thing I would do is jaywalk at night in front of a moving car. But for some reason they do it all the time in that area as though the cars will not ever hit them. IMO, the deer are much easier to see and avoid than the black people who jaywalk. Both are unexpected and unpredictable, but the deer are lighter in color and easier to see. Furthermore, hitting a deer is just damage to my car....hitting a person is far more tragic.