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[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 161 points 5 months 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...

[–] Hubi@lemmy.world 69 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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...

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 73 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

This makes more sense

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 0 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Toyota is literally Japanese

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 months ago

Nikon is too

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 points 5 months 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.

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

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