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Jaywalkers Under Surveillance In China Will Soon Be Punished Via Text Messages (scmp.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from South China Morning Post: Traffic police in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen have always had a reputation for strict enforcement of those flouting road rules in the metropolis of 12 million people. Now with the help of artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology, jaywalkers will not only be publicly named and shamed, they will be notified of their wrongdoing via instant messaging -- along with the fine. Intellifusion, a Shenzhen-based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company's director of marketing solutions.
For the current system installed in Shenzhen, Intellifusion installed cameras with 7 million pixels of resolution to capture photos of pedestrians crossing the road against traffic lights. Facial recognition technology identifies the individual from a database and displays a photo of the jaywalking offense, the family name of the offender and part of their government identification number on large LED screens above the pavement. In the 10 months to February this year, as many as 13,930 jaywalking offenders were recorded and displayed on the LED screen at one busy intersection in Futian district, the Shenzhen traffic police announced last month. Taking it a step further, in March the traffic police launched a webpage which displays photos, names and partial ID numbers of jaywalkers. These measures have effectively reduced the number of repeat offenders, according to Wang. The next step -- informing the errant pedestrians by text or Weibo instant messaging -- could have the added benefit of eliminating the cost of erecting large LED screens across the cities, he said.
For the current system installed in Shenzhen, Intellifusion installed cameras with 7 million pixels of resolution to capture photos of pedestrians crossing the road against traffic lights. Facial recognition technology identifies the individual from a database and displays a photo of the jaywalking offense, the family name of the offender and part of their government identification number on large LED screens above the pavement. In the 10 months to February this year, as many as 13,930 jaywalking offenders were recorded and displayed on the LED screen at one busy intersection in Futian district, the Shenzhen traffic police announced last month. Taking it a step further, in March the traffic police launched a webpage which displays photos, names and partial ID numbers of jaywalkers. These measures have effectively reduced the number of repeat offenders, according to Wang. The next step -- informing the errant pedestrians by text or Weibo instant messaging -- could have the added benefit of eliminating the cost of erecting large LED screens across the cities, he said.
So what?! It's not like the government has a ranking system that denies them the ability to travel out of the coun... oh... wait.
This is building a world I don't particularly want to live in.
. . . Death, by Snu Snu!
Tourism and jaywalking in China grow exponentially.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Shaming pedestrians for crossing safe roads (I assume they are not suicidal) while the president makes himself an all-powerful dictator makes a fine country indeed. I'd rather have a country where corruption is automatically shamed.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
... paragraph 213/b-N of civil of conduct in traffic. 4 points have been subtracted from your citizen performance measure. You are now -72 of average at a level of 968. Have a profitable day Sir and please comply with the law and the codes of conduct. - Big Ching is watching you.
Levels and Punishment
950 - 50 hours of social work
900 - 100 hours of social work, public shaming and +30% on your rates for public transport
750 - 500 hours of social work
400 - permanent containment until debt of 300 points is recovered (20pt / Quarter)
300 and below: Inmediate recycling of all your personal biomaterial at the nearest biorecycling facility
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Nice Big Brother makes sure you cross the road safely.
Nice Big Brother doesn't mind what else you do.
Nice Big Brother won't object if you attend a protest.
Nice Big Brother won't keep a record of who you talk to.
Nice Big Brother has only your best interests at heart.
All praise Nice Big Brother!
Please wait to send the text messages to dumbfuck Meanderthal iDioticuses until they're in the middle of traffic.
Preferably with a large bus coming.
Can we also put more open manholes in?
IN AZ jwalkers get auto killed by self driving cars
More likely to be death by tank.
What happens if everyone starts wearing surgical masks? Won't it just be a DB with a billion peoples' eyes?
I've heard that AA gun is popular in that region of the planet.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Punishment may be used in justice, but justice isn't punishment.
Justice doesn't mean breaking a law need to be punished. But it means the reason and circumstances for such actions should be evaluated. If such actions deemed to be harmful or needlessly dangerous then corrective action should be in place.
All too often, I see people taking the laws and rules, and hammering peoples freedom with them, where the intent or practice of such a law isn't practical or may be outdated.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Yes, but the self-driving car is not a function of the state or contracted to provide enforcement. If anything, since the accident the state has been harder on self-driving cars, not harder on jay-walking.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Poison and pollute the world with fentanil and youre a hero of the people leader for life. But jaywalk and they sell your kidney.
Good thing we trade with thise cunts to our own destruction! There's no way those racist cunts hate us or anything either..
This is just another part of government of Xi's psychological warfare on the people. They are sending the message that they are God and a lack of reverence will be punished. The point is to keep people thinking that the government has absolute control and thus any challenge to it would be futile.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Somehow, i think this applies: Arson, Murder, and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmw...
Share and Enjoy!
IMarv
Trusting software vendors is no smarter than trus
Did you hear the one about the guy who got a photo from an automated speed camera? There was a picture of his car and a letter saying he was going 80 mph, and the fine was $200. He took a photo of $200 and mailed it back to them.
People complain that the AA gun was overkill, but if I got to choose between being executed with an AA gun or a .22, guess which I'd pick.
Thinks his penis-replacement handgun will matter against his governments all encompassing drone army..
Enjoy slavery pleb! When they kill you from miles away your guns will be their justification, just like the thousands of Iraqis before you.
Good thing they're "our" corporations right?
today it is like that but down the road the state can use that to get rid of people and make it look like an accident
And content myself with sitting on the porch and yelling at clouds. Screw the police state, I remember when talking on the phone required keying up and activating the phone patch on the repeater. A BBS at 300bps was a big deal. I drove my car, but only after I fixed it, and I spent time outside with my girlfriend.
I shit you not, where we are today is meaner, more limiting and less fun. And it’s less real, technology advancement, which I happen to play a part in, has certainly not resulted in an improvement in quality of life for most people.
Oh. And if you’ve made it this far reading this post, get the -fuck- off my lawn.
There may be a wide variety of rule sets that make a stable society.
Civil order is useful.
These watchful cameras may be a means to that end.
The problem is accountability for the watchers.
If everybody gets the same consequence for each and every 'misdeed' then fine.
If those in power do not apply the rules to themselves, then eventually the rest will figure it out.
The reverse of civil order will result.
Historically, China may be the poster child for this last failure mode.
Best wishes to those in power at being smarter this time.
Thinks his penis-replacement handgun will matter against his governments all encompassing drone army..
Enjoy slavery pleb! When they kill you from miles away your guns will be their justification, just like the thousands of Iraqis before you.
Funny how you picked an example where that "all encompassing drone army" wound up withdrawing...
<HOMER> DOH!!!</HOMER>
Enjoy slavery pleb!
And that would be YOU, dumbass - all too willing to TRUST your fucking government and willingly give up the only real guarantor of your freedom.
Calling you dumb as a post would be an insult to a post.
Was elementary school the best decade of your life?
Make a mask with a picture of Xi on it.
Let him get the fines.
Or LOTS of them, hand them out to all your friends. V.
I want to see this working in real life.... it must be really good facial recognition technology to spot one guy that crossed the street out of over 1 billion.
I'm really not sure why it would matter. Even if one was briefly slightly more painful than the other, you wouldn't be around to think about how agonizing that was in either case. You'd be dead.
Different countries employ different technologies to deal with people that can't follow rules...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I guess 1984 was never translated in Mandarin/Cantonese/Hunanese?
Tired of my customary (Score:1)
Imagine creating a mask of someone you dislike. You can ruin them doing this.
Death penalty. For jaywalkers. Eventually, no more jaywalking.
One more big step on the road to total surveillance and control. George Orwell would not be surprised, except that it has taken this long. Even the British, with their myriad cameras recording every bit of life haven't yet linked the cameras directly to an enforcement mechanism.
A couple more quotes of interest from the article:
Mattel Electronics sues China for the name "Intellifusion" which is too damn close to "Intellivision".
#DeleteFacebook
They already had this in place for those 'stealing' tp from public restroom so this comes as no surprise
You have been fined one credit for the violation of the verbal moralaity act......
Legalize jaywalking. The streets belong to the people not cars. Humans are sovereign. Cars are slaves!!
STOP CRIMINALIZING JAYWALKING!!!
It was translated. As a most excellent instruction manual.
This is one more reason to not carry a cell phone.
The more lazy, useless gang members (Cops) we can get off the streets and have robots replace them, the better.
I for on welcome our robot overlords.
(clicks TV Tropes link)
(sees Funding Choices message wall asking me to disable the Tracking Protection security feature of Firefox)
Since when has TV Tropes become a pay site?
Alternative source for users of Firefox Tracking Protection: "Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking" on All The Tropes
They already have this in China. Ever seen some of the gruesome traffic videos?
Have gnu, will travel.
Wang Jun tonight!
It was, it just went from English -> Mandarin -> Cantonese -> English -> Hunanese. Something got lost in the translation, and I believe there's an unlabelled node '?' which resulted in the net outcome, 'Profit!'
If you've lived in China, you'll know what I mean. Sad to tell you, but most Chinese will agree with their government on this one. Too many scumbags on the road.
If the Chinese are so strict about their traffic rules, how come every chink behind the wheel here drives so utterly terrible?
The next step is to plant a harmless little Safety chip in peoples brain. This chip would monitor the actions of the people. If it determines that they are taking actions that could potentially harm themselves or others it will automatically immobilize the individual. This would be the final solution to the deplorable problem of J-walking.
A village or community should work to prevent harm to individuals and the society. Individualism at the expense of the public is a vice, and should be prevented. When public shaming does not work it is necessary for the benevolent community to step in and prevent the harmful actions of an individual.
Do you know someone who is acting individually at the expense of the community. Be sure to call 9-11 and let the FBI or your local community action network know. The individual might be harming themselves. Safety First. Safety Last. Safety Always. Are you being safe today? If not there is a chip that can help you become the Safe person we know you and your community want you to be
China is our future. Like it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Studies have shown that removing signals, signs, crosswalks, etc. leads to much safer roads.
People are more cautious. Rather than roaring through an intersection, they slow down, make eye contact and negotiate their way through the space.
Also, check out traffic in Hanoi, Viet Nam and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
How much longer are the people of China going to put up with this bullshit? Sounds to me like every year China becomes more and more a total shithole to live in, with the government now literally up their asses 24/7. How can human beings put up with this shit?
People need to stop driving cars. [...] If there is no train, ask your city planners why there is no train.
And then what? Walk?
China's social credit system:
By 2020, everyone in China will be enrolled in a vast national database that compiles fiscal and government information, including minor traffic violations, and distils it into a single number ranking each citizen.
Chinese are already loving Big Ching.
It's amazing and terrifying to consider over a billion humans living under this dictatorship driven, Orwellian nightmare of total surveillance and control.
Slap on a 10-gallon hat with YOUR AD HERE, and go walkin' jays.
EOP
More likely the execution van will simply run you over on it's way to it's next batch of criminals.
It is one thing to be able to tell if a picture of someone is who they say they are. Or to identify people in a roomful.
But to accurately identify people with no other information is almost beyond belief. There are lots of people that look almost the same, and women tend to look different every time the change their hair or make up.
It would not be possible humans to do this, so I am suspicious that it is possible for computers.
One thought is that tracking mobile phones lets them know who is nearby. Or that an app on the phone using GPS does it -- *everyone* there needs WeChat. Maybe their ID cards can be read at a distance.
Bu noticing mood, who you are with, collecting and correlating that info. The Chinese are way ahead of us in those technologies, but will probably be happy to sell them to us.
It's the silent ones you gotta watch out for.
I'm looking at you Bob!
--> 41 minutes of pedestrian pain,
Not just China. But yeah.(disclaimer: some of these collisions are obviously lethal)
---PCJ
Whenever a story like this pops up, the comment section is flooded with China's big brother plan or evil Xi's control over China. But do you guys have any idea why this technology is necessary to enforce traffic rules in China? Have you tried to cross roads or drive in Chinese cities? You may run into some Chinese tourists in your own country, do you think that they are polite, civilized, and respect your rules or culture? Of course not. If I may quote a Quora user from UK, Chinese are "well-known for cheating tourists; liars and not to be trusted; dirty and slovenly; have no shame; boisterous and hard-drinking", etc. As a native Chinese, I am offended by these comments, but I have to admit that they are facts to certain extent. I assume that you all live in developed countries. You cannot imagine how many ways Chinese have to fail any of your rule-of-law systems. Without technologies like this, the traffic in Chinese cities will always be a total mess.