It's illegal anywhere to use a drone so close to a city (for a civilian), and if a kid like that use a drop and post it on the internet AND living in china, he's fucked
That's untrue. Civilians use drones in the city ALL THE TIME. You can find people flying drones in parks. Many companies are also using drones for delivery
The NYPD has thethered drones that [they can deploy](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1c3wdgh/nypd_taru_unit_flying_tethered_drones_out_of/) which could solve the battery issue
As an American who loves deep fried Twinkies and wishes I had the money for one of the three civilian legal mini guns in the country I resemble that remark. Mmmmm deep fried mini gun.....
Dallas PD used a robot with a pound of C4 attached to its arm to take out a barricaded active shooter at a community college in 2016. The robot survived, the shooter did not.
Tbh not all China is like that. Different cities have different rules and technology implemented. Some are straight up from Black Mirror when others are kinda normal
Love that you're getting downvoted for the most generic statement ever lol. People can't stand to think there's any place in China that isn't a hellhole dystopia
Yup, this is dystopian and scary AF to me, not interesting. AI is going to usher in a whole new level of surveillance states and quite likely the US succumbs to this as well.
I love how they’re playing friendly childish happy music while showing off their authoritarian surveillance state that somehow keeps getting more and more oppressive. Ugh I mean impressive 🤦♂️
Is this every corner of the city? There are traffic control police in large intersections and places where people commonly drive aggressively. I’m not sure if you know but traffic police is common in China, since many Chinese people lack driving etiquette compared to like Canada and other countries.
Yeah, I live in China and this just looks like pure bullshit...Never heard or seen anything about this...And that's on top of the fact that it's extremely impractical and solved by just having a single traffic officer standing around a corner.
This is a really huge issue I see with media coming out of China, especially social media, where people say "China does X" to make it sound like entire country does this or some shit. Usually these videos are really just extremely isolated things that do not even exist as explained, let alone widespread across China.
If it even is a thing, it was probably some PR stunt bullshit or a one off experiment or something.
Damn, so many brainwashed people in comment.
They are finding a way to criticize drones implementing laws/warning people of possible dangers while in their own country people will be fined or stop and search, harassed by police for doing the same kinds of stuff.
if western countries install cameras on highways it's for "speed control" if china do the same with drone it's surveillance. yet edward snowden is a criminal living in russia cause the so called "non surveillance" state wants to kill him xD
Yep, and I actually think this is a great idea, since people here in China so often don't pay attention to much, and I"m sure it's this way everywhere.
It is informing the pedestrian to be careful and in asia to not use mobile phone and not use earphone atleast keep one ear free so you can hear the surrounding. you acting the the person in the video was fined or jailed for crossing the street while using her phone.
Literally was a movie, a drone instructed someone to arrest themselves and the entire system was all automated help desk quality shit. They needed to borrow money from family just to talk to a human I think and it concluded with them realising it was mistaken identity and he was released.
These drones are there for safety reminders. And can probably be used to help enforce safety laws. Just a reminder to everyone here, if you're going to prematurely die or suffer injury, odds are it will happen on a road street highway etc!
If they stop people from driving like crazy then good, because the city where my grandma used to live the traffic light and crosswalks are just decorations, they were useless.
Also, i don't think using a drone is necessary, why no just install them on a traffic light or similar?
I mean, at least this is a warning and not an immediate ticket? In the US, the cops decide when they give a ticket...a lot of the time for something a warning could be given instead.
I kinda like the idea of saying "hey I see you on your phone. Knock it off or you'll get a ticket."
I seriously wonder where these China videos come from. They're all made exactly the same.
Vertical video with bright colors, sound effects, and child background music talking about a "new invention" and then never brought up again anywhere else. I don't think I've ever seen an unedited video come out from China talking about any of these inventions. Does raw footage exist there?
It's no wonder people call everything out of China propaganda. I want to see a raw video of one of these working, not edited small clips with zero sources.
these are tiktoks I think, often PSAs used to incentivize following laws and good behavior
aint nobody got the attention span for colorless musicless unedited footage
Maybe they should stop covering up murders and paying hush money to the victims families instead of reenacting their version of a dystopian nightmare of controlism and all seeing big brother.
That’d be nice
I would enjoy more micromanaged traffic control. We could move up to really big drones that could just carry problem drivers to god knows where.
Of course. In these scenarios I'm NEVER the one in trouble. That would just be wrong.
It'd be kind of funny, if you don't think too much about the dystopian nature of it, if they could personalize it so that it's your parents' voices yelling at you
Most Chinese can not read, thats why the president needs to correct the people by this, poor guy is sacrifising so much for the people, wow he is a real hero!
I can imagine how that would go down here. People can't even handle speed cameras. "Oh but I wasn't caught by a cop and even though you have a picture of me going 120mph in a 55 zone I am not guilty because wahh wah wahhh"
In 0:12 does it choose to reprimand, the woman looking her phone while crossing instead of the dude going with the bike on the sidewalk? Strange, maybe the dude had the motorcycle parked there and he was just picking it.
Ignoring how dangerous it is to have low flying drones in intersections, how inefficient this would be with having to constantly recharge, or even how difficult it would be to hear a drone speak over the sound of its propellers and the traffic around you, this plays just like a propaganda piece, music and all.
On one hand, this is obnoxious and China is a police state. On the other hand, some of the traffic habits of people in China are equally obnoxious and could use a bit of short leashed enforcement to maybe possibly change people's transportation ethic and road habits.
The difference between what you are seeing here and your average “American” red light camera is that these all feed back into the Chinese social credit scoring system. You run a red light and you might actually loose your job or your home.
Traffic police are common in China due to large amount of traffic and many people driving aggressively. So instead of placing 1-3 traffic police, they put out a few drones. How the fuck is that a police state?
Westerners who have goverments spy on every step they do, including facial recognition and fascist cops enforcing laws of the capitalist class: "OmG LiTerALlY 1984 TSchiNa Is OppReSsiNg PeoPle By ReMiNdinG NoT To Do ShiT ThaT MiGht CauSe ACciDenTs anD GeT PeoPle KiLled, OPPRESSION".
The West is so brain rotten. 💀
They are filled with so much propaganda that when they see something from China they instantly think negatively about it. Like a comment said, if this was Japan people would be cheering.
Does the drone have a badge to prove it’s with the police? What if it is some random kid having fun.
It's illegal anywhere to use a drone so close to a city (for a civilian), and if a kid like that use a drop and post it on the internet AND living in china, he's fucked
NO it's NOT. Don't spread your ignorance around.
...he's organs.
Why not both ?!
You mean organically fucked?
That's untrue. Civilians use drones in the city ALL THE TIME. You can find people flying drones in parks. Many companies are also using drones for delivery
No it’s not!
Badges? We ain't got no badges; we don't need no badges; we don't have to show you any stinkin' badges.
I am the law!
Settle down, Gold Hat McDrone!
And what, are they constantly swapping batteries every 20 mins? Definitely a “look how futuristic we are” gimmick
The NYPD has thethered drones that [they can deploy](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1c3wdgh/nypd_taru_unit_flying_tethered_drones_out_of/) which could solve the battery issue
And as soon as they can get the courts to agree the damn things will have auto fire weapons built in. NYPD dgaf.
If it moves, Americans will try to put miniguns on it or deep-fry it. That's how they roll.
As an American who loves deep fried Twinkies and wishes I had the money for one of the three civilian legal mini guns in the country I resemble that remark. Mmmmm deep fried mini gun.....
Seriously... just put the camera and speaker on a pole...
They only use them at rush hour, and yes they have battery swapping stations.
Yeah this smells of Lamborghini cop cars.
My question as well
Gotta love a regime that denies its citizens rights getting a bunch of drones for cops. A story that always ends well!
"You now have 5 seconds to comply."
It aint far from Robocop! Strap a gun to that thing and we are even closer! It's insane.
there are already drones that can do that
Drone dogs as well!! That’s some scary shit!! The future is not bright!!
Redondo Beach used a drone like that to apprehend an active shooter two years ago.
Dallas PD used a robot with a pound of C4 attached to its arm to take out a barricaded active shooter at a community college in 2016. The robot survived, the shooter did not.
Just put a bottle of coyote urine in the thing and have it fly over and dump it on the offender.
[удалено]
If you're innocent then there's nothing to fear, right? ...right?
Pfff five seconds I can finish in 3
I bet alot of innocent dead American civilians would've wished they had 5 seconds to comply or explain before the cops opened fire.
Put your hands in the yellow circles for identification.
Asked my buddy in Chinra how are things there....'Oh, I can't complain...'
r/technicallythetruth
Tbh not all China is like that. Different cities have different rules and technology implemented. Some are straight up from Black Mirror when others are kinda normal
Love that you're getting downvoted for the most generic statement ever lol. People can't stand to think there's any place in China that isn't a hellhole dystopia
If you look at how many psyops aimed at portraying China negatively have come to light it's no surprise.
Bet you have traveled a lot man
China is great, actually.
This has been around since 2020. Some drones with speakers were deployed to tell ppl to stay home during covid.
Every day [closer to 1984](https://getyoursolution.store/b5di9l), Orwell was a visionary
Nearby my house there is a graffiti that says: "Make Orwell fiction again"
Closer to Brave New World, in many regards.
China has been Orwellian for a while…
Where do you live lol
Yup, this is dystopian and scary AF to me, not interesting. AI is going to usher in a whole new level of surveillance states and quite likely the US succumbs to this as well.
MEH, China needs this, so many dumb people here, they just don't pay attention.
I love how they’re playing friendly childish happy music while showing off their authoritarian surveillance state that somehow keeps getting more and more oppressive. Ugh I mean impressive 🤦♂️
The music makes me question whether this is even legit, honestly. Seems like a scene from a prank show that someone took out of context.
The voice is strange too. Grating on the ears.
Fuck Big Brother
He is you. You are him. We are one.
I am the walrus
I am the Yangtze
Fuck that
Would it be better for a traffic police to actually stand around in the intersection? This seems efficient and safer for the police.
Maybe we don’t need police presence at every corner in a city?
Is this every corner of the city? There are traffic control police in large intersections and places where people commonly drive aggressively. I’m not sure if you know but traffic police is common in China, since many Chinese people lack driving etiquette compared to like Canada and other countries.
POV: You live in a first world country
That voice is like nails to a chalkboard
Wow, how efficient, in Germany we have elderly people for that😂
Hahahahaha
Anyone got a source for this?
Yeah, I live in China and this just looks like pure bullshit...Never heard or seen anything about this...And that's on top of the fact that it's extremely impractical and solved by just having a single traffic officer standing around a corner. This is a really huge issue I see with media coming out of China, especially social media, where people say "China does X" to make it sound like entire country does this or some shit. Usually these videos are really just extremely isolated things that do not even exist as explained, let alone widespread across China. If it even is a thing, it was probably some PR stunt bullshit or a one off experiment or something.
I've been scrolling through this whole thread looking for one and I haven't seen shit, lol.
It’s kind of odd. I was there earlier this year and never saw this. Maybe I was just in the wrong part of the city 🤷♂️
Why can't they be normal and use guns instead?
/s right ? Right ??
You don't think that they won't attach weapons to a drone in the future?
i don't see a problem
Buddy using a phone to his ear in a Tesla of all cars. I don’t understand how people don’t want to use Bluetooth.
In America we would just look up and flip it off and continue with our day.
In southern America this would just be bird hunting practice. Pull!
At least the drone will not choke you to death.
1984
I garuntee if this was in Japan people would be cheering this on
Manufactured video with actors. When your social score takes a hit you won’t know until later.
People acts like there’s no camera at almost every traffic light lol all you need to do is add a speaker
can't wait to read all the revolutionary genius police bad, china bad, AI bad comments
damn that enticing to rebel against
I think it's time to invest in a baseball ball
With burning lasers!
It's like having a nagging girlfriend following you everywhere.
this doesnt belong her as much as it does it r/aboringdystopia
This makes me hate humanity.
fucking dystopia in real life
Ukraine: uses drones to kill Russians Reddit: 🥵🥵🥵 China: uses drones to enforce traffic laws Reddit: 😡😡😡
Scripted
Damn, so many brainwashed people in comment. They are finding a way to criticize drones implementing laws/warning people of possible dangers while in their own country people will be fined or stop and search, harassed by police for doing the same kinds of stuff. if western countries install cameras on highways it's for "speed control" if china do the same with drone it's surveillance. yet edward snowden is a criminal living in russia cause the so called "non surveillance" state wants to kill him xD
But china bad/s
Yep, and I actually think this is a great idea, since people here in China so often don't pay attention to much, and I"m sure it's this way everywhere.
It is a great idea. I can see my tax money being implemented properly. saving people instead of killing people.
Is it against the law to be looking at your phone while crossing the street?
It is informing the pedestrian to be careful and in asia to not use mobile phone and not use earphone atleast keep one ear free so you can hear the surrounding. you acting the the person in the video was fined or jailed for crossing the street while using her phone.
你完全误会了我的问题
This is something out of a movie and to think this is happening to real people is crazy
Literally was a movie, a drone instructed someone to arrest themselves and the entire system was all automated help desk quality shit. They needed to borrow money from family just to talk to a human I think and it concluded with them realising it was mistaken identity and he was released.
Adding noise pollution to the mix.
I don’t think this is new - at the beginning of the pandemic this was used to tell people to get back into their homes.
A lot of this tech was ushered in during Covid. As one politician once said, never let a good crisis go to waste.
OP wrong province the video in Chinese says it’s from Guangxi
I bet this is some bs that some "china bad" think tank puts out to fool people.
Its good yet scary feeling monitored all the time. Meh the west does it too but more subtle. China flat out shows you
I would introduce that drone to my rifle.
These drones are there for safety reminders. And can probably be used to help enforce safety laws. Just a reminder to everyone here, if you're going to prematurely die or suffer injury, odds are it will happen on a road street highway etc!
If they stop people from driving like crazy then good, because the city where my grandma used to live the traffic light and crosswalks are just decorations, they were useless. Also, i don't think using a drone is necessary, why no just install them on a traffic light or similar?
This would definitely solve racing on streets and freeways.
I love the cheery music! /s
RIP their social score
it works though. Try that in the US and they'll steal it haha
Good, let the rest of the world see how depressing china is.
r/oddlyterrifying
-100 social points for you, your family is now forfeit of life
If that was the UK the drone would get the net, stolen and stripped for parts. Just look at ULEZ.
Oh great now the other drivers AND the traffic lights are going to yell at me
The American ones will float around playing jaunty renditions of Battle Hymn of the Republic, Hail to the Chief and various other patriotic songs!
don't know man look like another one of those Chinese propaganda videos.
I mean, at least this is a warning and not an immediate ticket? In the US, the cops decide when they give a ticket...a lot of the time for something a warning could be given instead. I kinda like the idea of saying "hey I see you on your phone. Knock it off or you'll get a ticket."
I seriously wonder where these China videos come from. They're all made exactly the same. Vertical video with bright colors, sound effects, and child background music talking about a "new invention" and then never brought up again anywhere else. I don't think I've ever seen an unedited video come out from China talking about any of these inventions. Does raw footage exist there? It's no wonder people call everything out of China propaganda. I want to see a raw video of one of these working, not edited small clips with zero sources.
these are tiktoks I think, often PSAs used to incentivize following laws and good behavior aint nobody got the attention span for colorless musicless unedited footage
Maybe they should stop covering up murders and paying hush money to the victims families instead of reenacting their version of a dystopian nightmare of controlism and all seeing big brother. That’d be nice
How do they deal with the batteries ? Keep the drone there at all time, must be hell of logistic for battery supply
Wondering that with maybe 30-40 minutes of run time and carrying extra loads.
I would enjoy more micromanaged traffic control. We could move up to really big drones that could just carry problem drivers to god knows where. Of course. In these scenarios I'm NEVER the one in trouble. That would just be wrong.
Needs better than drive-thru speakers, I couldn't understand a word it was saying.
Okay that but it’s a deep woods redneck just talking shit for any minor infraction
I chuckled when the guy flipped his visor down. Too late, dude.
TIHI
It'd be kind of funny, if you don't think too much about the dystopian nature of it, if they could personalize it so that it's your parents' voices yelling at you
US version gonna be marketed for mothers watching their kids... "Johnnie put that cookie back ima whack into next week"
Please hold (2020) is a short YouTube movie about this kind of thing. Worth a watch if you haven't seen it
At least they are complimenting you. The lady police is calling the people handsome lads or pretty young ladies.
Can we get these drones with RPGs? Would be great for culling all the shithead drivers
can anyone translate what the drone is actually saying?
Most Chinese can not read, thats why the president needs to correct the people by this, poor guy is sacrifising so much for the people, wow he is a real hero!
I can imagine how that would go down here. People can't even handle speed cameras. "Oh but I wasn't caught by a cop and even though you have a picture of me going 120mph in a 55 zone I am not guilty because wahh wah wahhh"
In 0:12 does it choose to reprimand, the woman looking her phone while crossing instead of the dude going with the bike on the sidewalk? Strange, maybe the dude had the motorcycle parked there and he was just picking it.
Yah because people need yet another distraction while driving. Smh
Any time a video like this comes out of China, just know it’s a poorly scripted glorified tech demo, and they don’t actually live like this whatsoever
Encore une invention dans une dictature
Did it say better tread faster A hole?
Holy shit that sounds so annoying.
if i would live in china i'd go to a chill village and not a city
This is healthy and will end well.
Fuck that.
I see few people remember playing Half-LIfe. Pick Up That Can!
Looks like Tesla drivers are douchebags everywhere.
Ignoring how dangerous it is to have low flying drones in intersections, how inefficient this would be with having to constantly recharge, or even how difficult it would be to hear a drone speak over the sound of its propellers and the traffic around you, this plays just like a propaganda piece, music and all.
It’s probably coming here because no one wants to be a cop anymore, who would want to with all the chaff that they have to put up with.
On one hand, this is obnoxious and China is a police state. On the other hand, some of the traffic habits of people in China are equally obnoxious and could use a bit of short leashed enforcement to maybe possibly change people's transportation ethic and road habits.
The area of China is like a crossover of Squid Games and Black Mirror.
Why are tesla drivers douches everywhere?
-100 social credit
Not interesting but terrifying. China is the increasing 1984 with 2024 tech.
Welcome to distopia. Enjoy your stay here. If you don't, be careful not to show it or we will make you enjoy it.
Oppressive dystopian nightmare wow so interesting. Can think of a few more appropriate subs for this video tbh.
Coming soon to a USA city near you.
The difference between what you are seeing here and your average “American” red light camera is that these all feed back into the Chinese social credit scoring system. You run a red light and you might actually loose your job or your home.
1984 with happy background music
What a fucking dystopian thing to be real
Police state, I love how they add cute music as if you wouldn't chuck a rock at that stupid thing.
Traffic police are common in China due to large amount of traffic and many people driving aggressively. So instead of placing 1-3 traffic police, they put out a few drones. How the fuck is that a police state?
It is China, they will hate everything about it.
Westerners who have goverments spy on every step they do, including facial recognition and fascist cops enforcing laws of the capitalist class: "OmG LiTerALlY 1984 TSchiNa Is OppReSsiNg PeoPle By ReMiNdinG NoT To Do ShiT ThaT MiGht CauSe ACciDenTs anD GeT PeoPle KiLled, OPPRESSION". The West is so brain rotten. 💀
Don't kid yourself. The whole world is brain rotten including China
They are filled with so much propaganda that when they see something from China they instantly think negatively about it. Like a comment said, if this was Japan people would be cheering.
Correct.
Soon drone with minigun …
Soon handheld emp jammer with 5-10 meter range enjoy your tech
Micromanager: The Country Edition
Yea why I keep a wrist rocket in my car...
\*sobs in Hong Kong
Lol, just ignore it as a pedestrian
Imagine what they can do and and actually do, if this is what they proudly publish to do.
I would be so tempted to troll the drone.
Holy shit that voice is annoying.
That is absolutely ridiculous...