I do not like the conclusion of the article.

Increasing the diversity of the team members might be good for reducing bias, but the fact remains that darker skinned people are harder for machine vision systems to work with due to the lack of contrast.

Like that fuss a few years ago with the laptops (I want to say it was Toshiba but I'm not certain) not being able to use facial recognition to unlock the OS.

Also, this seems to be only vision systems - you'd hope LIDAR would be able to detect a pedestrian regardless of skin color.