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

  • korendian@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Again, the car info and owner are already available to police at will, instantly using plate scanners. The location, timestamp, and speed are also already being logged with your phone, whenever you use a gps to navigate, and sometimes even when you’re not. I’m not saying these things are good or bad, it’s just that people see AI and immediately jump to “this is literally 1984”, when it’s literally not, and it’s not too far off from technology that we already have permeated into society for a while now.

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      2 days ago

      Nah, for me, this has absolutely nothing to do with AI. I don’t use my phone for nav and can easily leave it at home. This is 100% about security and reducing tracking and PII. Not to mention, not putting all the pieces together in one handy, easily leakable database.