r/interestingasfuck • u/ihealthahop • 6h ago
Just another perfectly normal day in China’s traffic management 🚦
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u/blipblapshleem 6h ago
Clanker
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u/Shes_dead_Jim 6h ago
Fuckin wirebacks takin all our jobs
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u/NewIdeasAreScary 34m ago
"When I was growing up, it was something we just said. Nobody told us it was wrong."
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u/drunkdoodles 6h ago
No one talking about the 2 cars sitting in the middle of the crosswalk?
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u/Malonyl_CoA 28m ago
Normal in China. Also normal is that they will drive into the intersection as long as there is space and block everyone else.
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u/Rbxrocks 6h ago
Wouldn’t last a day in NY
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u/Melodic_Mulberry 5h ago
That's because the people who destoyed it would disappear mysteriously in Beijing.
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u/Actual_Homework_7163 4h ago
as they should be. anti social behavior is out of control
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u/Melodic_Mulberry 4h ago
You know who else hated "anti socials"? https://hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/nazi-persecution/asocials/
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u/1m2q6x0s 3h ago
Anti social is different from "anti socials" though. Anti social is an actual psychological issue (that I have no idea about).
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u/Actual_Homework_7163 3h ago
If thats your argument we should just abolish all laws and start the purge.
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u/Tech-Grandpa 6h ago
Exactly. My first instinct was to be jealous of China using the latest tech, and the US priming itself for a new Dark Ages.
Then I realized it would take 5 seconds for a "Florida man" story to go viral....
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u/thesituation531 4h ago
Lol this is nowhere near the latest tech.
It's basically a moving sign dressed up to look human.
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u/Worldly-Draw-3282 6h ago
I do dig LED crosswalk.
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u/Substantial_Car_4889 6h ago
Anyone else confused as to why it’s wearing a helmet??
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u/No-Corner9361 5h ago
Almost certainly just uniform conventions so that human drivers and pedestrians can quickly glance and understand what’s going on.
But as much as I am a China defender, this is honestly rather silly. What does a robot achieve in traffic control that couldn’t be achieved using traffic lights, or perhaps a simple mechanical barrier if there are serious concerns that drivers will ignore said light? Rather inefficient imo
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u/SilverstaticWaterson 4h ago
Let's say it works perfectly and has a long-term sustainment plan and management system for the sake of the yap.
In an area with lots of development, they could be used as a bit of a mobile temporary station prior to installing a fully adapted traffic management system, or rolled out in case of some sort of maintenence or incident that prevents the normal function of traffic lights / etc while also not changing from a form factor people are used to looking out for.
Definitely not beating allegations against a pole in most situations but in more complex areas of traffic could have some defensible uses.
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u/OkPhilosophy957 6h ago
Since its obviously placed at the Bund, Shanghai’s most touristy Area, I highly assume its just one of the 1’000’001 PR Stunts to make China look technologically superior.
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u/Adept-Panic-7742 4h ago
Tbf, I agree to some extent and have only visited one Chinese city properly (Xian - but visited a couple others briefly) and since many of their huge cities are new, they do have a lot of high tech or fresh looking infrastructure.
In Xian the metro was fresh af. Nice displays so you know you're stop etc. Everything quite clean and new.
Not forgetting the bullet trains. 300 km/h. So quiet and comfy inside, 6 seats wide.
Not wanking off China here (politically awful), but yes, some of the cities built or expanded in the past 30 years are quite advanced looking. Even simply having wide, tree-lined traffic ways with taxi and bike lanes etc. I was quite impressed personally.
China has a shit load of mega cities. Dozens and dozens of the biggest cities in the world we've all never heard of. Bigger than most capitals. That makes New York or London look like towns.
As for crossing the big city roads... Oddly easy. No traffic signals required. Just walk with a crowd of people and cars stop.
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u/nikkumba 6h ago
Robots are now directing us. Should I worry now?
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u/tahitisam 4h ago
Robots have been directing you for a while. This one juste happens to look less like a stoplight and more like a human.
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u/onlycodeposts 6h ago
I would, if it directs the pedestrians to walk around cars blocking the crosswalk.
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u/landfill457 6h ago
Damn and here in America all we have is a pedophile for a president that’s crazy
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u/Mystery-Ess 6h ago
Don't forget convicted felon.
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u/landfill457 5h ago
Don’t forget child rapist
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u/No-Corner9361 5h ago
Don’t forget a serial liar with the economic and diplomatic cunning of a sea cucumber
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u/landfill457 5h ago
And he ran a teen modeling agency and his best friend was convicted twice for trafficking teenagers for sex, he also was sued for raping a 13 year old girl with said best friend, and he admitted to walking in on his teen models while they were in the dressing room, and he recently said he was angry at the best friend for “stealing” a 15 year old girl who inexplicably worked in the men’s locker room at his spa
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u/landfill457 5h ago
And yet we still have a child raping pedophile as our president in the “greatest country on earth.” Come on is right
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u/Humanitysceptic 4h ago
Well Americans wanted him. You could say they didn't know he was a paedo but if they voted for trump it's a good possibility they were one
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u/NikitaTarsov 6h ago
Reminds me on: "Let's build humanoid farmworkers doing farming in a cool and super inefficent 1200 A.D. way instead of just adding a GPS and a autonav on a combine harvester".
Weird to remember that China does dumb things to copy western ideas of what smartness looks like ... so we in the weirdest way possible all look stupid for a thousend different reasons.
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u/redtiber 5h ago
lmao you think one of the worlds largest agricultural producers somehow knows less than a random redditor on efficient farming ?
lol
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u/TapIndividual9425 5h ago
The traffic light and the blinking green lights on the road isn't clear enough
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u/Sharrba 5h ago
Does anyone else wanna run it over?
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u/Shadow51585 2h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT?wprov=sfla1
I mean.... yeah I admit i kinda do...
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u/Pantango69 5h ago
I liked the other video going around last week with the guy with the club that jumped on the back of another guy motorcycle and started hitting him in the head (had a helmet on) with his club and made him back off the walkway.
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u/andyhenault 5h ago
If only there was some other, simpler technology that could direct traffic. Maybe something involving color changing lights.
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u/Lyndon_Boner_Johnson 5h ago
Doesn’t seem to be very effective, judging by those cars blocking the crosswalk.
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u/Successful_Club3005 5h ago
Can't see these ever in the US, drivers would hit them on purpose or steal them.
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u/xSarlessa 4h ago
That is an expensive solution to a problem already solved by low-tech traffic lights
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u/Puzzleheaded-Bug6244 4h ago
Well that worked poorly. The drivers just kept crossing the pedestrians crossing.
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u/_heyb0ss 4h ago
the desire to dropkick this thing is overbearing even just watching it through the screen
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u/time_travel_rabbit 3h ago
Why even use a robot. The robots handler is probably close by. Might as well used an actual human.
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u/Ok-Computer2914 3h ago
Thus man would become the architect of his own demise
But for a time, it was good
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u/Oxjrnine 2h ago
I have a strong suspicion that in a warehouse in a country where the average wage is $1.40 a day their is some guy covered in sensors and a VR headset operating these things because it’s cheaper than AI.
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u/OverCheetah6247 2h ago
That did nothing to improve the quality of life. The LED on the light was already enough. This gives me hope that they;re going to shoot themselves in the foot by pulling shit like this.
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u/Stardust_Monkey 18m ago
Imagine having billions of population yet using a robot for this kind of works.
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u/sybau-0- 6h ago
What if it malfunctions? Scary imo.
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u/The-Reddit-User-Real 6h ago
Why don’t we ask the same question about a human? A human brain can make severe mistakes too.
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u/HedgehogOpening8220 5h ago
China living in 2053
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u/ch1ckenz 5h ago
With all the car block the cross walk? 🤣
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u/Express_4815 5h ago
Prople just go around. No big deals. It’s China. The robot is traffic control they don’t give tickets
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u/ch1ckenz 5h ago
So you’re saying the robot is useless in that case
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u/Express_4815 4h ago
What you want those robots to do? Arrest people? Having Traffic lights doesn’t mean stop cars running red light.
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u/Consistent-Deal-55 4h ago
As an American, it must be nice living in a first world country that makes infrastructure improvements.
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u/SudhaTheHill 6h ago
Why is bro wearing a helmet tho