• Dragon Rider (drag)
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    -17 days ago

    A woman was killed by a self driving car because she walked her bicycle across the road. The car hadn’t been programmed to understand what a person walking a bicycle is. Its AI switched between classifying her as a pedestrian, cyclist, and “unknown”. It couldn’t tell whether to slow down, and then it hit her. The engineers forgot to add a category, and someone died.

    • snooggums
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      67 days ago

      It shouldn’t even matter what category things are when they are on the road. If anything larger than gravel is in the road the car should stop.