China’s traffic police are using AI smart glasses to identify vehicles in seconds, reduce inspection time, and improve road safety.

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        Yeah over here ICE wears those while beating citizens with inaccurate metal replicas of The “Constitooshun”.

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          Imagine sacrificing everybody’s privacy to “make jobs easier” for cops in an techno-authoritarian police state.

          Personally, I’m not interested in how easy cop’s jobs are, only how good the quality of people’s lives are.

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              Yes, great point. Previously there was a limitation on how easily cops could find a reason to harass you and now there isn’t. There’s literally zero difference between those scenarios.

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              If you need technology to help you read a license plate then I’m not surprised you don’t understand the ramifications of sweeping AI identification and tracking being used, especially in a country with poor civil rights protections.

              What really blows my mind is that some people have such a shallow, surface level understanding of the potential impact of technology on society.

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          They can identify drivers instantly, thereby reducing privacy immeasurably. I say the same about speed cameras, and if they were installed everywhere the world would be much closer to 1984. Have you read that book?

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              I have no clue how you’re missing the difference between a cop moving their head from side to side to id dozens of individuals and manually typing shit in to id one at a time.

              You are coming off like a bootlicker. And I guess you answered my question despite having tried to ignore it. You didn’t read it

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                  Do you really think cops sit there and manually type in every license plate?

                  They cannot possibly do that. That’s my entire point. I have no idea what you’re arguing about other than you’re mad someone thinks this invades privacy which it 1000% does.

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      I mean, our police do this, it’s just built into their vehicles. Additionally, you apparently haven’t heard of ICE using facial recognition to assault people.