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  • The prisoner, Dotson, was “found dead” so who knows how many hours the body was lying there.

    That pretty much precludes any use of the heart for transplant.

    His relatives said they received the body in a decomposed state, but that could have been poor storage by the coroner before or after the autopsy, or the body might have been well hidden inside the prison so it was a long time before someone found it.

    The article isn’t very clear on the condition of the body at each stage of handling.

    What’s in the article is probably all the information that the reporter could get out of the prison authority, the state Department of Forensic Sciences, and the University.






  • I think you’re misunderstanding what the article is saying.

    You’re correct that it isn’t the job of a system to detect someone’s skin color, and judge those people by it.

    But the fact that AVs detect dark skinned people and short people at a lower effectiveness is a reflection of the lack of diversity in the tech staff designing and testing these systems as a whole.

    They staff are designing the AVs to safely navigate in a world of people like them, but when the staff are overwhelmingly male, light skinned, young and single, and urban, and in the United States, a lot of considerations don’t even cross their minds.

    Will the AVs recognize female pedestrians?

    Do the sensors sense light spectrum wide enough to detect dark skinned people?

    Will the AVs recognize someone with a walker or in a wheelchair, or some other mobility device?

    Toddlers are small and unpredictable.

    Bicyclists can fall over at any moment.

    Are all these AVs being tested in cities being exposed to all the animals they might encounter in rural areas like sheep, llamas, otters, alligators and other animals who might be in the road?

    How well will AVs tested in urban areas fare on twisty mountain roads that suddenly change from multi lane asphalt to narrow twisty dirt roads?

    Will they recognize tractors and other farm or industrial vehicles on the road?

    Will they recognize something you only encounter in a foreign country like an elephant or an orangutan or a rickshaw? Or what’s it going to do if it comes across that tomato festival in Spain?

    Engineering isn’t magical: It’s the result of centuries of experimentation and recorded knowledge of what works and doesn’t work.

    Releasing AVs on the entire world without testing them on every little thing they might encounter is just asking for trouble.

    What’s required for safe driving without human intelligence is more mind boggling the more you think about it.