Automobiles

A New Study Finds a Potential Risk with Self-Driving Cars: Failure to Detect Dark-Skinned Pedestrians

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Author: Sigal Samuel; Publisher: Vox; Publication Year: 2019. The following article talks about the self-driving Uber cars. It points to a very important ethical issue in data science i.e. the issue that self-driving Uber cars so biased that they cannot detect a dark-skinned pedestrian for stopping. This shows that algorithms are inherently biased and that is probably because historically white males in positions of power…

The Moral Dilemmas Behind Developing Self-Driving Vehicles

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Author: Sarah Koa; Publisher: KrASIA; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how the benefits of self-driving cars range from increased mobility to efficiency and convenience. These cars can also reduce crashes, lower carbon emissions, and increase road safety. No car today is completely automatic and with some of the issues automatic cars present currently, completely automatic cars probably will…

Tesla Autopilot Crashes into Motorcycle Riders – Why?

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Author: N/A; Publisher: FortNine; Publication Year: 2022. The following video discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize industries (such as automotive), but often at the cost of people or groups outside of that industry’s preview. In this case algorithms designed to detect other cars fail to detect motorcycles, who look similar to cars at a distance. This caused the death of a few…

Driverless Cars: Experts Warn No Easy Answer to How Safe They Should Be

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Author: Chris Vallance; Publisher: BBC News; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how self-driving cars, while emerging in the tech world, are not yet normalized in overall society. In the UK, policymakers are contemplating when to begin integrating self-driving cars onto the road. There are concerns that the public will not be as understanding of crashes with self-driving cars…