Shenzhen is rolling out a high-tech initiative to shame jaywalkers out of their bad habits by displaying their faces on large screens. 
 
 The new device, dubbed the ‘Electronic Police,’ was installed at a zebra crossing at the intersection of Xinzhou Road and Lianhua Road in Shenzhen, one of China’s wealthiest cities, north of Hong Kong. 
 
 “The term ‘Chinese Style Road Crossing’ was created by a Chinese netizen in 2012, stating that when a large crowd of pedestrians try to cross a road together, there is no need to obey the traffic rules. It is based on an underlying assumption that law enforcement officers would not punish a large number of offenders all at once,” State University of New York at Albany graduate, Zhong Zheng, explained on safekids.org in autumn 2016. 
 
 The ‘Smart System for Collecting Evidence of Jaywalking’ captures the image of the offender and projects their photo onto a big screen. 
 
 “People might be ashamed of running on the red light by seeing their names on the public screens. However, the technology of face detecting has to be 100% accurate,” a passerby told Ruptly news agency. 
 
 The technology is being tested on that one crossing before the city decides to roll it out across the whole of Shenzhen. As with drivers, pedestrians caught on camera will also be fined 100 yuan ($14). 
 
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 Motorists can also fall prey to the new system due to its sonar technology, which can capture any honking sound. Horn honking is banned in downtown Shenzhen, resulting in a fine of 500 yuan, China Daily reports. 

 Pedestrians wait for the light to change in Beijing, but people not obeying the rules of the road in other parts of China might find their faces flashed on a huge screen with facial recognition technology being used to catch jaywalkers Chinese cities are cracking down on jaywalkers by installing facial recognition kits at intersections to identify and shame them by posting their photo on public screens, state media said Tuesday. 
 
 It is the latest use of the technology in China, where it has been used by fast-food chain KFC to predict orders and in public restrooms to foil toilet paper thefts. 
 
 This time, cities in four provinces are using the hardware to keep pedestrians from crossing at red lights, according to the official Xinhua news agency. 
 
 The technology has detected more than 6,000 instances of people crossing red lights since it was installed in early May in Jinan, capital of eastern Shandong province. 
 
 The facial recognition equipment takes photos and a 15-second video of jaywalkers, whose images instantly appear on a screen, showing them that they've been caught, Xinhua said. 
 
 The photos are matched with images in a provincial police database. 
 
 "Within 20 minutes, the offender's photograph and personal information such as their ID number and home address are displayed on the screen at the crossroad," Xinhua said. 
 
 Traffic police give the offenders the choice between paying a $3 fine, taking a half-hour course on traffic rules or spending 20 minutes helping a traffic officer. 
 
 Jinan traffic police department may also publish the offender's information on its Weibo social media account. 
 
 "Since the new technology has been adopted, the cases of jaywalking have been reduced from 200 to 20 each day at the major intersection of Jingshi and Shungeng roads," Jinan police officer Li Yong was quoted as saying by Xinhua. 
 
 The Xinhua report comes after a video appeared on social media earlier this month showing a woman being hit by a taxi on a crosswalk and then run over by a car. She later died. 
 
 The footage sparked outrage at the indifference of other pedestrians and drivers who did not stop to help her. 
 
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 Not that you shouldn't already think twice before jaywalking, but now, you have yet another reason to wait for your light. 
 
 Cities in four Chinese provinces are shaming jaywalkers by posting their personal information on public screens, according to state-owned Xinhua. 
 
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 The system's been installed at cities in Shandong and Jiangsu in east China, as well as Fujian and Guangdong in south China, and it uses facial recognition to trace the identities of jaywalkers. 
 
 Cameras take several snapshots of errant pedestrians, as well as a 15-second video which is then displayed on a large screen: 
 
 A system in Yancheng, eastern China. Image: Weibo A similar system in Shenzhen. Image: Weibo 
 
 Facial recognition software matches the faces of errant offenders with those in a provincial police database. A police officer then checks them for their accuracy, and if they pass muster, the offender's photograph and personal information (like portions of their ID number and home address) gets displayed. 
 
 In some cities, like Jinan, Shandong, traffic police post the identities of errant offenders on social media: 
 
 The man got a 20 yuan ($2.93) fine. Image: Jinan Traffic Police/Weibo 
 
 The public shaming has very visible effects — Jinan police told The Paper that being publicly shamed could impact a person's credit rating, as well as their insurance and pension premiums. 
 
 Offenders get to choose between three forms of punishment — a 20 yuan ($2.93) fine, a 30-minute long traffic safety course and or 20 minutes of assisting police in traffic control. Repeat offenders could be fined up to 100 yuan ($14.64). 
 
 Police could also inform errant pedestrians' employers and residential communities, said Xinhua. 
 
 The system in place in Yancheng Image: Weibo 
 
 The system in place in Jinan Image: The Paper/Tencent Video 
 
 The public shaming's been naturally effective. 
 
 Jinan police have caught over 6,200 jaywalkers in the city since the system was set up in May this year, according to The Paper. 
 
 The number of errant pedestrians has also fallen from 200 per day, to 20 per day, the city's traffic police told Xinhua. 
 
 "I'll take note and remind myself the next time I cross the road," one resident told The Paper. "After all, it's not a good thing to cross the road while the light is still red." 
 
 Jinan wants to install the system at 50 more major intersections by the end of June. Each unit will cost the city 100,000 yuan ($14,637). 
 
 Image: Weibo 
 
 This isn't the first time China's taken, uh, slightly unusual steps to stop jaywalking before. 
 
 In April, turnstiles were installed in Wuhan, central China, to stop pedestrians from dashing across the road. The country's also deployed dancing aunties to promote road safety at crosswalks, and in January, a robot police officer was deployed at a traffic junction in Xiangyang, central China to stop errant pedestrians, and tell them off.
– Jaywalkers take heed: If you do it in parts of China, you could be in for the shaming of your life. Authorities have installed a new device called the "Electronic Police" at intersections in cities in four provinces. Not only does it detect when people are jaywalking, but it snaps photos of the offenders and uses facial recognition tech to pull up their images in the provincial police database, reports RT. Once police confirm a match, the person isn't just flagged for the offense (they can choose whether to pay a fine, take a safety class, or volunteer with traffic police). Their photo and personal details, including parts of their ID number and home address, are displayed on a large screen for all passersby to see. Facial recognition has already been used in China to catch toilet paper thieves in public restrooms and to predict orders at the fast food chain KFC, reports the AFP. But the use of public shaming takes things to a whole new level—one that local police say is proving effective. They say public shaming can go so far as to impact insurance and pension premiums, and police in the city of Jinan say they've caught more than 6,200 people crossing at red lights since installing the system in early May (yes, that's less than two months), with the number of incidents dropping ten-fold from 200 per day to 20. Jinan is looking to install the system at 50 other major intersections by the end of June, each costing the city roughly $15,000, reports Mashable. (Texting pedestrians are hit with fines in parts of New Jersey.)