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[–] [email protected] 168 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is what happens when a company has no diversity. Most companies dogfood their own production. Reminds me of Google's gorilla situation...

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This makes more sense

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Your claim is a Japanese company never tested on Asian people? Would you place a bet on those odds?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Toyota in the US is more American than most American car companies. The tech being different isn't that big of a stretch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Or potentially it did, found the issue, and werent able to solve before the deadline

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Probably they knew of the issue, but didnt figure a solution before the deadline.