And like it or not, the type of pedestrian might affect your decision to brake hard, or keep rolling.
The bigger question is how many human drivers decide whether to stop based on whom the pedestrian is.
Previous research, for instance, has found that many people are less likely to yield for Black pedestrians in the US.
Can Autonomous Cars Be Better Than Humans If Humans Are The Teachers?
The researchers focused on four AI models for LLM testing and four models for VLM tests, and they learned that all of them can inherit human biases in autonomous driving.