Tesla’s Autopilot is suspected in the fatal rear endings of two motorcyclists. With deep learning doing automated feature extraction, it's impossible to know...
Not to be dismissive of these deaths, but there should not be any expectation of self-drive cars being perfect, ever. The reality is that if they are safer than humans overall, then they have reached a point where we can (and should?) adopt their use. It’s not a huge surprise that there is some form of bias in the current deaths simply because biases arise in any complex, real-world systems.
We should, and must, accept some glitches.
But, uh, yeah Tesla may well try to delay addressing the biases if we don’t call them out, so this info is good.
I agree, these systems are fundamentally a very good thing and the more cars they’re in, the safer we are on the road.
I just don’t think they’ll be substituting human beings at the wheel of cars in the near future, and I personally think it’s not so good of an idea to frame it like that.
I mean, we’ve only automated some, not all metros all over the world, and no passenger trains at all. If we haven’t figured that out yet, I can’t see how self-driving cars are supposedly just around the corner.
Not to be dismissive of these deaths, but there should not be any expectation of self-drive cars being perfect, ever. The reality is that if they are safer than humans overall, then they have reached a point where we can (and should?) adopt their use. It’s not a huge surprise that there is some form of bias in the current deaths simply because biases arise in any complex, real-world systems.
We should, and must, accept some glitches.
But, uh, yeah Tesla may well try to delay addressing the biases if we don’t call them out, so this info is good.
I agree, these systems are fundamentally a very good thing and the more cars they’re in, the safer we are on the road.
I just don’t think they’ll be substituting human beings at the wheel of cars in the near future, and I personally think it’s not so good of an idea to frame it like that.
I mean, we’ve only automated some, not all metros all over the world, and no passenger trains at all. If we haven’t figured that out yet, I can’t see how self-driving cars are supposedly just around the corner.