It will be face recognition before we know it
Given that facial recognition is more recently plagued with issues around those people with less white skin tones, i'd doubt it.
On the other hand, we already have an issue around voice recognition and regional accents. That tech is already in your car and hated in the far flung corners of the UK.
The interesting thing about both of those technologies is that they have more problems with females than males.
In case anyone is actually interested, here's the results of an accuracy test of three different facial recognition software systems:
Microsoft was perfect at identifying white males in the PPB dataset but scored 1.7 per cent for white females. Figures worsened for darker skin: for black males the error rate hit six per cent and for black women it was 20.8 per cent.
In second place was Face ++ which was also much better at classifying males compared to females regardless of skin colour. The error rate for white males was 0.8 per cent and 0.7 per cent for black males, but for white women it was six per cent and 34.5 per cent for black women.
IBM struggled the most with darker skin tones. The results report error rates of 0.3 per cent for white males, 7.1 per cent for white females, 12 per cent for black males and 34.7 per for black females.
That's pretty terrible.
For current reasons, I cannot see any car maker wanting the negative press that goes with that.