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.
First - tier Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai have already employed AI and facial recognition technology to regulate traffic and identify driver's who violate road rules, while Shenzhen traffic police began displaying photos of
jaywalkers on large LED screens at major intersections starting in April 2017.
Not exact matches
Intellifusion, the Chinese AI firm in charge of the facial recognition technology in Shenzhen, is working
on a system that sends texts to
jaywalkers alerting them of their fine immediately after the incident, the South China Morning Post reported.
China is setting up a vast surveillance system that tracks every single one of its 1.4 billion citizens — from using facial recognition to name and shame
jaywalkers, to forcing people to download apps that can access all the photos
on their smartphones.
Now that sounds like super technology, but in Indian conditions you have
jaywalkers, animals and errant cyclists ready to jump in front of you and that's when the S literally stands
on it brakes — we found this out the hard way!
Biologist Pierre Legagneux, lead - author
on a recent study about this behavior, says the idea for this research sprung up from bird behavior most drivers witness every day: avian
jaywalkers taking flight as to avoid being run over.
I crashed
on the streetcar tracks while avoiding
jaywalkers in March.
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