I’m all for mass surveillance of roadways, but I want to see results. Every day I see and hear people breaking laws with their vehicles in ways that make life worse for others around them.
More importantly, can I borrow you car? I have some, uh, stuff, to go do.
Facial recognition performs so poorly on non-white people that you'd have to find the most racist officer saying "they all look the same to me" to get that degree of defectivity.
That's besides the point, you don't need to question a picture with accompanying information (such as location, detected speed).
> Facial recognition performs so poorly on non-white people
You don't need facial recognition. Car with plate XYZ (trivial character recognition) ran a red light, $1000 fine with associated picture proof of the crime sent to the owner of the car as registered in their locality. Done.
Most of those red light tickets you’d be surprised but city subreddit advice will be like “ignore it, don’t even look up the ticket number because that acknowledged you received the ticket.” They only mail it to you via regular mail. They have no clue if it actually got to you.
Doesn't matter, fine the owner and let them deal with the driver.
This is true in theory but not so much in practice. The American legal system only works for people with enough time and/or money to pursue justice (or whatever else they want from the legal system). Like traffic tickets on a road trip - very few people can actually go back to fight them.
Facial recognition is irrelevant if the liability is on whomever the vehicle is registered to.
Give me a database of everywhere you have ever driven, and I will find multiple ways to make you look like a criminal.
An example is cops stopping and searching you. If they're looking for a murderer, and they stop people coming out of Home Depot, and find a shovel, lye and rope in your trunk - hey, looks like a murderer! But it also could just be any customer going to Home Depot to get gardening supplies. So they can only stop people if they have probable cause: a reason they specifically think this specific person is the murderer.
(The other reason for probable cause, which is just as valid today as it was during the Framers' time, was to protect innocent civilians from unreasonable search and seizure by the Government, as well as protecting personal privacy. Mass surveillance violates all those principles.)
Everyone is a criminal. Directed [per|pro]secution is a thing. And not a new one either[0]:
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I
will find something in them which will hang him.
You want this on our roads? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud8kFCmalgg&t=112s
We don't need mass surveillance for traffic control. It can be done by the police if they really wanted to do it. Truth is, they don't care enough about road safety. This is about surveillance of citizens for control. First step is just infrastructure setup - next step is using it to prosecute those who dare to challenge the rise of fascism.
Be an advocate for your own rights to privacy. Don't simply accept it as normalcy.
I really wish we had a more robust information environment where we could discuss things with more nuance.