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An AI dashcam app designed to rate every driver

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Re: An AI dashcam app designed to rate every driver

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Post by nl »

cgriswald wrote: post #37
nl wrote: post #27

I've considered building something like this for bikes. For those who aren't cyclists, there are already informal networks of people who share helmet-cam videos of bad driving behaviour, with people who attempt to read license plates etc

In my experience as both a cyclist and a driver in the Bay Area, I have no interest in the opinions of other cyclists on driver behavior. Cyclists largely disregard the rules of the road and then blame drivers. As a driver, I have been at the receiving end of abusive gestures and language even when following the law. In one case, I yielded to a bicyclist who was in blatant violation of the law[0], because failure to…

So.. cameras == good for both, then?

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Post by noja »

sokoloff wrote: post #11

> Nexar will face some ethical dilemmas. For example, should the app inform users when it spots a license plate that’s the subject of an Amber Alert? Absolutely. I'm not one to normally fall victim to the mindless "think of the children", but Amber Alerts are rare and specific enough that they seem perfectly useful and legitimate usage of this tech. (I find most of the rest of the tech between useless and invasive, b…

Absolutely at the moment. That stops being okay once amber alerts start to be misused.

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Post by [deleted] »

good_dog wrote: post #34
macintux wrote: post #7

Today I pulled into a turn lane and stopped alongside the car ahead of me to let them know their brake lights were out. Had to honk incessantly to get their attention. Then I waited in the wrong lane (no one behind me) to pull back into my original lane to go straight through the light. Probably would get a demerit from an AI for that maneuver.

Pulling into a turn lane, stopping alongside another car and honking incessantly is dangerous and against the law. The other driver was probably scared and trying to ignore you.

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Re: An AI dashcam app designed to rate every driver

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Post by peylix »

I read somewhere that the app doesn't only rate the drivers around you, but also looks at the person running the app and rates his/her driving. Add the inner facing camera recording they're using and why anyone would want to actively participate in something like this is beyond me.

Re: An AI dashcam app designed to rate every driver

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Post by mcbrettsy »

syphilis2 wrote: post #32

I wonder how well this will scale with time. I've certainly done things while driving that were reckless to varying degrees, I suspect most drivers have as well. How long until 50% of cars on the road have been tagged doing something reckless? Of course I can imagine a number of ways to handle this. On a more broad note, I wonder how useful it really is to know that a specific vehicle acted recklessly sometime in the…

So something like http://comroads.com ?

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Post by frgewut »

kylec wrote: post #40

The real purpose of this app isn't the rating system, that's just the hook to get people to run this app and point the camera out their dashboards. The real purpose is to crowdsource collecting data about the drivers on the road in order to sell that data to interested parties.

I can imagine a lot of applications for these types of systems: identifying undercover traffic police cars, finding whether someone is following you, identifying friend's cars (similar to FB's "Share your location")

People would love such systems (and I'm afraid our privacy is gone for good).

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Post by golergka »

frgewut wrote: post #48
kylec wrote: post #40

The real purpose of this app isn't the rating system, that's just the hook to get people to run this app and point the camera out their dashboards. The real purpose is to crowdsource collecting data about the drivers on the road in order to sell that data to interested parties.

I can imagine a lot of applications for these types of systems: identifying undercover traffic police cars, finding whether someone is following you, identifying friend's cars (similar to FB's "Share your location") People would love such systems (and I'm afraid our privacy is gone for good).

This debate happens on HN again and again, but still: what privacy are you talking about in public space? Nobody has a problem with one person with a dashcam — why suddenly connecting these dashcams to a network that shares information is a problem?

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Post by Angostura »

syphilis2 wrote: post #32

I wonder how well this will scale with time. I've certainly done things while driving that were reckless to varying degrees, I suspect most drivers have as well. How long until 50% of cars on the road have been tagged doing something reckless? Of course I can imagine a number of ways to handle this. On a more broad note, I wonder how useful it really is to know that a specific vehicle acted recklessly sometime in the…

I presume that the system would simply indicate the proportion of times that a vehicle is seen driving and performing a dodgy manoeuvre. If I'm seen on the roads 1,000 times and seen performing a dodgy lane change once (and I would like to apologise to the Mondeo driver on the A21 yesterday), that's the fact that should be recorded.
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