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 š«
Classic case of OPWFREITTS (Only people with fire resistant ears in the training set)
It wouldn't surprise me if their Asian training models were more accurate with Koreans than other Asians. It could be made super accurate to Korean models due to sample size and cause the differences between Korean and Chinese models to trigger a false positive.
Maybe we could add mandatory accessoires.
You have to wear blood pressure, respiratory and heart rate sensors while driving.
Additionaly these could be made available to insurance companies for a small reduction in fees from 115% to 105%, so it feels cheaper while they tell you it's for your own benefit.
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.
Your claim is a Japanese company never tested on Asian people? Would you place a bet on those odds?
Toyota in the US is more American than most American car companies. The tech being different isn't that big of a stretch.
Thatās what I was thinking. How did this slip by? If I recall correctly, Toyota is better than average when it comes to quality control. This is Boeing-level laziness/incompetence.
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.
My FIL shared that the lane assist tried to swerve into oncoming traffic shortly after they bought their new car with all the assist bells and whistles. On the other hand my MIL shouldn't be driving and genuinely had the drowsy assist force her to be a bit safer. I'm seriously waiting for the day she finally loses her license either for drunk driving or just speeding/tailgating/illegally passing etc. excessively
Your car (Tesla?) has no sensors on the wheel that can detect your hands. Thatās why you need to jerk the wheel every couple of seconds.
God no. It's a Peugeot, and light hands on black wheel. But the other comment says it has no sensors, except the ones that detect movement of the wheel. so apparently i just have to jerk the wheel randomly, like a BMW driver and it will stop yelling at me.
Exactly, other cars do have āhand-detection-sensorsā so you on my have to touch the wheel. I would assume current BMWs should have it.
So, what you are saying is, i"m driving too good, so the car thinks I'm not there? And we want to let those dumb things drive themselves?
Lol just like the old Xbox Kinect failing miserably at seeing dark skinned black people correctly or at all
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.....
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.
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.
God I loved that show, especially that episode. If they'd made it a few years later, it most certainly would've been picked up by one of the streaming services for more seasons.
One of my faves. I still think of the line from that episode "but we don't have the parking for that" whenever I walk past a car desert
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 mean I just liked them because you actually learn more about other perspectives...plus other cultures are pretty dope too....the white power idiots need to go out and realize white town is creepy and unpleasant.
white town is creepy and unpleasant
And simultaneously incredibly boring! There's only so much alcohol and casseroles I can be entertained by...
You'd think they'd have learned from all the cameras that can't see black people....
This is racist as shit.
It's actually probably not racist as shit.
I'm white with larger eyes. My car tells me the same thing. Constantly.
Yes I understand that facial recognition software is usually racist as shit, but this particular situation may just be shitty software rather than racist shitty software.
Dude, racism is shitty processing in humans, you don't think computers can achieve shitty processing?
Yeah, it's that guy and his Razor again.
Now, me getting a chuckle out of it, probably a little racist.
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.
Removing Google tracker for ya (Piped)
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company vehicle. might not be allowed to for insurance reasons. š¤·āāļø
Sue the company for racism and creating a hostile work environment.
Iām not sure how serious I am.
The fun part is, company will get a higher premium after they go through data from that car and it's "sleepy" driver.
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.
For the manufacturer sure, the driver can't do jack until there is a system update or recall.
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.
It's creepy but systems like Toyota use infrared and looks for a reflection in your pupils.