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Motorist fined for 'scratching his face', picture goes viral

The traffic camera, using artificial intelligence, mistook it for him using a mobile phone while driving.

A man's bizarre traffic violation in China has gone viral after he was fined for 'scratching his face'.
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According to the Jilu Evening Post, the male motorist (surnamed) Liu was driving on Monday in Jinan as he raised his hand to scratch his face, while passing a traffic camera.
The traffic camera, using artificial intelligence, reportedly captured him scratching his face - mistaking it for him talking on the phone while driving.
He received a notification about the violation along with a surveillance picture of his "offence".
He was told that he would receive two points on his licence and was also ordered to pay a 50 yuan (Dh27; $7.25) fine, BBC reported.
"I often see people online exposed for driving and touching others' legs," he said on the popular Sina Weibo microblog," "but this morning, for touching my face, I was also snapped 'breaking the rules'!"
He shared the surveillance picture of himself that he had been sent, and said that he was going to approach the authorities to try to sort out the situation.
According to The Global Times, the city's traffic authority has cancelled his ticket, and told him that "the traffic surveillance system automatically identifies a driver's motion and then takes a photo", which is why his face-scratching had been mistaken for him taking a phone call.
There are more than 170 million surveillance cameras and the country has plans to install a further 400 million by 2020.