News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Hitchhiking robot that relied on human kindness found decapitated (2015). Parent comment

Re:Hitchhiking robot that relied on human kindness found dec... by FussyZeus on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @12:01PM (#16116591)
Anyone remember way back when this was an option in Bing's navigation system, to avoid high crime or high risk areas or something like that, and it invariably avoided every single low income and for lack of a better term, "ghetto" area and was accused of being racist?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Hitchhiking robot that relied on human kindness found dec... by cavanasm on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @01:25PM (#16117457)
I believe that was Waze, not Bing. Or at least, Waze did that and got accused of being racist, but it was also generating those areas based on user input.
[ Parent | on HN ]