Scary Cool Tech Thread
Scary Cool Tech Thread
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In China, jaywalkers automatically picked up on facial recognition scans and are immediately texted with their fines.
- So, so fucked.detritus
- OBEYhans_glib
- For fuck's sake. As if the world isn't fistfucking us into a monstrous vortex of Ballardian industrial paranoia already.face_melter
- The terrifying thing with this tech is that unless there's a radical legal overhaulage, it will inevitably become used ubiquitously.detritus
- The cameras are cheap, the interconnection baked-in, the processing essentially free, the databases ever-larger, and all connected to the cloud.detritus
- My solution will be to move where there are no people or fucking cameras. Checkmate, neocon infosec shitheads.face_melter
- they need this in less developed countries where jaywalking is all too common.hotroddy
- It's only weird and oppressive countries that enact jaywalking rules in the first place.detritus
- Yay for being the first, how long till we get that implemented in the US?Maaku
- https://cdn.instruct…Krassy
- Jaywalking. Comedy crime.PhanLo
- Human vs Car. The onus is on the human to safely cross road. Why make jaywalking illegal? So Police/Gov can make more money.shapesalad
- I jaywalk 99% of the time when I cross a road, I read the traffic, you can see when it's going to be safe to cross. You can also watch traffic lights etc.shapesalad
- And I walk fast. I hate slow walks. Sometimes a slow walker follows me and jaywalks, only to have traffic honking at them.shapesalad
- Easy solution: https://www.youtube.…garbage
- QBN Falklands 2031detritus
- SOON-4-U.S.GuyFawkes