Self-driving cars, like the Cruise model from General Motors pictured above, are already on streets throughout the United States. Heather Somerville/Reuters

Pedestrian detectors in self-driving cars are less likely to detect kids and people of color, study shows.

This is due to bias in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely, researchers say.

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