Beijing’s long-haul bus drivers will wear a new gadget for “emotion sensing” and monitoring of vital signs, with the purpose of facilitating security control in the city prior to the Party’s 20th National Congress.
Beijing Public Transportation Group (BPTG) issued 1,800 electronic wristbands on Sept. 21 to bus drivers who drive on freeways and who cross provincial lines.
The wristbands provide real-time monitoring of the drivers’ vital signs and stress level as indicators of the drivers’ physical and mental health, and to improve public safety, the Chinese report claimed.
It meets the regime’s command: Minimize “societal risks,” prior to and during the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party that starts on Oct. 16….