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This kind of thing happened in 2018 in Ningbo. Dong Mingzhu, the well-known (here) chairwoman of Gree Electric Appliances, was identified as a jaywalker because an AI camera monitor "caught" her walking in the middle of the street. Her name and face were displayed as a violator.
The problem?
Her face was on the side of a bus in an advertisement for Gree.
not quite.
in this case, the guy was out of town--but someone else was driving his car. the ticket is presumably valid. and like other automated ones (and toll collections, parking violations, etc) the owner gets the ticket or bill. and i guess state law there says the registered owner's driving record gets the ding, regardless of who was driving. this guy has to rat out the actual driver in order to get the ticket sent to them instead.
Wha...?
What does this have to do with AI then? Red light cameras have existed since the '90s at least, and yes, in most jurisdictions, if your car is caught in a red light camera you are on the hook unless you rat out the actual driver.
The only thing AI-related here is that red light cameras these days use AI (older generation OCR, to be specific) to automate the procedure instead of having the pictures show up on the desk of a person who identifies the license plate and manually orders the ticket.
If that's the case, this has nothing to do with AI, lmao. The same thing would have happened if a human being had been checking the cameras. Why is this even posted here?