Staff helps! I had this thought today taking the train here in Japan, why I feel safe compared to other countries. Every station is staffed with a real person. Most trains have at least two people in them. One driver and a second staff announcing and checking doors. The staff is clearly visible and in uniform.
I know Japans base safety level is higher than the rest of the world. But I think putting trained staff in uniform on display would improve the situation everywhere.
adikso · 1h ago
I don't live in Japan, but I don't remember being in a train where there wouldn't be at least two people from the staff in uniforms. Could you explain what you have in mind? Are there trains without drivers or without people checking tickets?
Fire-Dragon-DoL · 10m ago
The skytrain in Vancouver, Canada, has nobody from staff and it's fully automated. Really cool.
jameslk · 2h ago
I wasn’t aware we had suddenly mastered the physics for holograms (I was envisioning something Star Wars esque) but there was no linked video so I looked it up:
This looks more like a… projection? Not exactly my Star Wars fantasy
makeitdouble · 2h ago
The article has no mention of how the crime rate is going outside of the park...is there good sources on the subject ?
Looking around, Numbeo keeps an index every year, and for South Korea in general it went from 25.5 to 24.9 for 2023->2024, with a general downward trend since 2021.
Cute story, but looks like crime rate is going down more broadly ?
Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam was having staff shortage problems a few years ago, so they deployed holographic security guards that didn't threaten strikes. The only problem was that people would try to put their arms through real security guards. ;)
I can imagine cameras connected to AI. AI detects crime in action (beating or something) and initiates the hologram which says cease now the police are coming . Might prevent a a crime from becoming bigger.
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gus_massa · 3h ago
> It pops up every two minutes to deliver a pre-recorded audio message reminding passers-by that they are being watched by security cameras
Was the reduction of crime caused by the image or by the cameras?
olyjohn · 1h ago
Or was it because it attracted more people to the area, making criminals less likely to hang around?
a012 · 3h ago
It’s working because:
> people were too scared to enter a park with a “ghost police officer”
esafak · 3h ago
A scarecrow for humans.
PaulHoule · 4h ago
This has to be something like Pepper's Ghost right?
From the photo, I would bet it's a projection onto a person-shaped glass or plastic standee, maybe with some texturing and projection mapping to add a "3D" effect.
trenchpilgrim · 1h ago
There's a video; It's literally just a projector pointed at a flat human shaped board
zdw · 2h ago
How long before we get a K-drama where some lonely single falls in love with the hologram?
https://youtu.be/Sj2Rl4SOJe8
This looks more like a… projection? Not exactly my Star Wars fantasy
Looking around, Numbeo keeps an index every year, and for South Korea in general it went from 25.5 to 24.9 for 2023->2024, with a general downward trend since 2021.
Cute story, but looks like crime rate is going down more broadly ?
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2...
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2...
https://speld.nl/2022/05/31/schiphol-zet-hologrammen-in-van-...
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Was the reduction of crime caused by the image or by the cameras?
> people were too scared to enter a park with a “ghost police officer”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost