China’s traffic police are using AI smart glasses to identify vehicles in seconds, reduce inspection time, and improve road safety.
China’s traffic police are using AI smart glasses to identify vehicles in seconds, reduce inspection time, and improve road safety.
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.
This might blow your mind, but the ability to readily identify a vehicle has existed since the invention of the license plate. This just speeds the process up. I truly don’t see how this is a step towards authoritarianism any more than China is already.
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.
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.
Why should we not use technology to make jobs easier? Do you expect people in a warehouse to manually type in the barcode? Or for people to manually record accounting transactions rather than using software?
The information being scanned is publicly visible, and voluntarily submitted into a government database, for the purposes of being able to hold someone accountable when they commit a crime with their vehicle. Unless you think it’s impossible to break the law with your vehicle, I really don’t see why making it easier for the police to locate those breaking the law is a bad thing. Sure there are frivolous cases of pulling people over to harass them, but cops don’t need an AI for that.