This is what happens when a company has no diversity. Most companies dogfood their own production. Reminds me of Google's gorilla situation...
This 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.
This seems more like an excuse. All these companies aren't using the same training data.
They literally never tested this on an asian person before selling in the vehicle...
Toyota is a japanese manufacturer. Likely they localize the feature and the localized version has the problem. Its completely possible they all contract the same software vendors in the US for certification reasons, resulting in similar problems.
Classic case of OWPITTS (only white people in the training set).
I am guessing the car wasn't made by Subaru or Nissan and is from Ford, GMC, Tesla, BMW, or Mercedes.
My Subaru has a driver attention feature that's constantly going off if I sit up straight because I'm too tall 🫠
"please sit back down!"
Please don't drive while standing?
Classic case of OSPITTS (only small people in the training set).
It happened to samsung's phones years ago.
Classic case of OPWFREITTS (Only people with fire resistant ears in the training set)
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.
Sounds like a similar episode of Better Off Ted. Also a great show that only got 2 seasons.
It's all fun and games until the octochicken comes down from its web.
My car keeps screaming at me to keep my hands on the wheel, WHILE I'M FUCKING HOLDING IT.
You black with a black steering wheel or white with a white one?
My 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.
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.
Lol just like the old Xbox Kinect failing miserably at seeing dark skinned black people correctly or at all
There’s a Better Off Ted episode that hilariously addressed this issue.
That show should have more seasons.
My 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.
Car manufacturer tried to make a safer and more attentive driver through monitor and warning systems, accidentally causes crippling anxiety instead.
My Ford transit kept telling me to pull over to rest. It was a windy day.
I have small eyes myself, and I'm not Asian. So it'd yell at me without the wind, lol. Also, I wonder how it'd work for those wearing sunglasses.....
Maybe it recognizes sunglasses and skips this check while you wear them.
You'd think they'd have learned from all the cameras that can't see black people....
This is racist as shit.
I'm sure it is possible to disable this feature?
company vehicle. might not be allowed to for insurance reasons. 🤷♂️
The fun part is, company will get a higher premium after they go through data from that car and it's "sleepy" driver.
Sue the company for racism and creating a hostile work environment.
I’m not sure how serious I am.
Can people see why "DEI" programs are genuinely good things yet?
Just in case anyone doesn't know the acronym: DEI is Diversity, equity, and inclusion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion
I 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.
i'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.
My white guy sucks
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.
Not mild, full blown racist
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.
