China’s traffic police are using AI smart glasses to identify vehicles in seconds, reduce inspection time, and improve road safety.
One of the most important features of these glasses is automatic license plate recognition. The system works offline with an accuracy rate of over 99% and delivers results in under one second.
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Once the system identifies a vehicle, the glasses connect to the public security traffic database in real time and pull up details such as registration information, inspection status, and violation records.
China over here making tech that connects to public databases even when offline. Impressive.
if it’s just all text for basic information you definitely can store all of them in a single SD card.
Imagine all the privacy relevant data contained therein
Probably about 350 million passenger vehicles in China. That’s a lot of data.
Can’t lie that’s pretty cool
China is living in the 21st century, while the US is regressing to the 19th century.
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.
Nah, the US is also using cameras and questionable AI for tracking
Yeah over here ICE wears those while beating citizens with inaccurate metal replicas of The “Constitooshun”.
Sounds like they’re living in 1984 to me
AI powered augmented reality making a job infinitely easier is 1984? I mean, it’s China, so everything they do could be viewed from that lens, but imo, this is legitimately a cool thing to see being used in an official capacity.
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.
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?
How does the speed at which a vehicle identified relate to privacy? The ability to look up a vehicle by license plate has existed for a long time, this just speeds up an already existing process. Unless your proposing we abolish license plates for “privacy”, which would be extremely problematic for multiple reasons.
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
Do you really think cops sit there and manually type in every license plate? No, they have automated plate readers. This shit has existed since the 70’s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recognition
Not really sure how stating facts about currently existing technology makes me a bootlicker, but ok.
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.
