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.
Or potentially it did, found the issue, and werent able to solve before the deadline
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.
Toyota is literally Japanese
Nikon is too
That’s 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.
Probably they knew of the issue, but didnt figure a solution before the deadline.
Google’s gorilla situation?
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 🫠
Classic case of OSPITTS (only small people in the training set).
“please sit back down!”
Please don’t drive while standing?
It happened to samsung’s phones years ago.
Classic case of OPWFREITTS (Only people with fire resistant ears in the training set)
Lol just like the old Xbox Kinect failing miserably at seeing dark skinned black people correctly or at all
There was also a automatic soap dispenser that couldn’t see dark skin.
My car keeps screaming at me to keep my hands on the wheel, WHILE I’M FUCKING HOLDING IT.
Dude. I’m never buying a new car. That shit is insane.
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.
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 ‘hand-detection-sensors’ so you on my have to touch the wheel. I would assume current BMWs should have it.
What does the system do when you wear sunglasses?
Automatically voids the warranty
Shh…you’re giving them ideas.
You’d think they’d have learned from all the cameras that can’t see black people…
This is racist as shit.
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.
Can people see why “DEI” programs are genuinely good things yet?
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.
how do people not realise how creepy it is for a car to have EYE-TRACKING
Asian women are more beautiful. That’s my professional opinion. I’m sure I’d think the same about the men if I was into that.
WTF u mean « my professional opinion »
I was paid for that opinion.
