Smart security cameras will be able to tell if you're texting and driving

[Danke]

Soon, police officers won’t need to pull you over if you’re caught texting while driving. An artificial-intelligence-enhanced speed camera will simply notify authorities directly.
The machine vision technology company Movidius has teamed up with the Chinese security camera maker Hikvision to create smart cameras that can catch behavior such as leaving a suspicious package in a public place, driving while distracted by mobile devices, and break ins. Advanced visual analytics will also allow cameras to identify car models and detect seat belts. The partnership will debut a new line of cameras with higher accuracy than traditional computing techniques in China this week. (Movidius has announced its acquisition by Intel.)

Both search giant Google and the world’s leading drone manufacturer DJI have relied on Movidius to enhance spatial awareness in virtual reality and engineer the sense and avoid features inside drones respectively. Movidius’s Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit (VPU) uses deep neural networks that learns patterns from massive amounts of data in order to identify features in a video or still image. Its computer vision lowers risk of false positives.

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http://qz.com/817766/chinas-hikvisio...urity-cameras/

[Anti Federalist]

Freedom.

[Danke]

Freedom.

When autos are driverless, then we can text again. That's freedom.

[The Northbreather]

I wonder how many times it'll capture distracted cops driving. We'll never know....

[Occam's Banana]

Freedom.

When autos are driverless, then we can text again. That's freedom.

I wonder how many times it'll capture distracted cops driving. We'll never know....

Hey, AF - we know how you feel about cops and driverless cars - but what about driverless cop cars?

[ChristianAnarchist]

I guess they will "catch" me then. I text and drive all the time while not wearing my seat belt and sometimes in between bites of food...

[Suzanimal]

I guess they will "catch" me then. I text and drive all the time while not wearing my seat belt and sometimes in between bites of food...

You don't wanna know what I'm doing.

[ChristianAnarchist]

You don't wanna know what I'm doing.

Actually... now I do!

[Danke]

You don't wanna know what I'm doing.

[oyarde]

Does this mean the Alabama Air Guard ( used @ Waco ) or something will shoot Danke down for taking selfies while flying ? Guess that is starting to rule out having Danke fly me to Africa for Safari .....

[Danke]

Does this mean the Alabama Air Guard ( used @ Waco ) or something will shoot Danke down for taking selfies while flying ? Guess that is starting to rule out having Danke fly me to Africa for Safari .....

Take a canoe.

[oyarde]

Take a canoe.

I guess I could pack us a couple of Chutes

[Suitandtie]

This all seems very big brother-ish. I don't really use that term lightly either as I try to not be cliche.

But I mean. I want to get rid of people who text and drive too and reduce crashes on the road from distracted drivers. But I don't want to do it with machines that will detect you doing them. Sometimes the machines can be wrong, or in a worse case scenario, they can be programmed in the future to do more than detecting what you're doing, or where you're going, and all. I just would hate to see where these kinds of machines go on from here.

Of course, I could be wrong and more than likely they don't work at all, like camera's that are designed to catch people who run red lights.