Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.::An AI camera system installed along a major road in England caught 300 offenses in its first 3 days.There were 180 seat belt offenses and 117 mobile phone

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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    11 months ago

    Oh, this can only end in tears.

    And just by chance does anyone know what the damage is done to society by punishing victimless crimes?

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      11 months ago

      Not wearing seatbelts and fucking around with a phone are hardly victimless crimes and those laws that punish such offenses were written in blood. Never understood people taking safety regulations lightly. It’s not a fucking suggestion.

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        11 months ago

        Who is the victim of not wearing a seatbelt?

        Is it one of those ‘you’re not allowed to do things that only affect you because we’re a society’ type things where we should ban video games and sweet foods too?

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          8 months ago

          I guess it could be argued that everybody via higher potential expense via NHS?

          And the other part, mobile phones, is certainly not victimless crime.

          I wonder constantly how in this day and age people still don’t use hands free either in-car, speaker, or BT systems if they really MUST be talking “all the time”.

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    11 months ago

    I love threads like these because it really shows how flexible opinions are, post about ai surveillance state and everyone is against it but post about car drivers getting fined for not wearing a seatbelt and everyone loves it.

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      11 months ago

      Surely the ultimate come away from that is will not ok with people breaking the law and we’re not ok with AI taking people’s jobs. There is no conflict here

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        11 months ago

        So you think most people like the idea of a surveillance state automaticly enforcing it’s every whim with perfect efficiency?

        I’m pretty sure that’s something pretty much universally disliked