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[–] [email protected] 161 points 6 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 69 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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 73 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

This makes more sense

[–] systemglitch 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)