An Atlantic writer claims that "studies have shown that automated vehicles are less able to detect people of color and children." It doesn't cite a specific study, but all the studies I could find focused on stand-alone vision models, not AVs.

Moreover, as @AVGregR points out, Waymo's vehicles have lidar sensors that detect people and objects by bouncing lasers off of them. Studying vision models doesn't tell you anything about whether lidar sensors will miss people of color or children.

@AVGregR Meanwhile, the article doesn't even try to analyze the data, which shows that Waymos cause fewer injuries (including fewer pedestrian injuries) than human-driven vehicles.

@binarybits @AVGregR More to the point... obviously it's gonna detect children worse? Duh? They're smaller. Humans detect children worse as well.