Posted on 01/04/2025 9:11:03 AM PST by bitt
Traffic cameras have been the bane of Britons for many a year now — but our neighbors across the pond have recently upped the battle, and the technology is coming over to America, as well.
According to a Dec. 21 report from NBC News, police departments in the United States have become the latest to use an AI-powered traffic camera system made by an Australian company named Acusensus.
The system, called “Heads Up,” doesn’t just check speed or running traffic lights like in other locales.
Instead, they look for violations, like failure to wear a seat belt or texting while driving.
“The Heads Up cameras take pictures of every vehicle that passes by them, capturing images of their license plates, as well as their front seats. AI analyzes the images and determines how likely it is that a violation occurred, assigning each one a ‘confidence level,'” NBC News reported.
“The cameras have been widely tested in the U.K., where nearly half of the country’s police forces have tried them, and in Australia, where they’ve sparked debates about privacy and drawn media attention. ”
Those cameras use the AI technology to send tickets once they’re reviewed by human sources. In the United States, where Acusensus has cameras in Georgia and North Carolina, the systems work a little different.
“The Heads Up Real Time system in the United States sends images to nearby police officers, allowing them to stop drivers before violations occur,” NBC News reported.
“The other Heads Up product used internationally sends the pictures to law enforcement officials as part of an evidence package, and they can mail out tickets to offending drivers. [the company’s vice president of government solutions] said an automated ticketing program, such as Heads Up, would require state legislation to authorize its use. ”
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now if it could only detect “driving while stupid”.
I wonder if one of the higher powered green lasers would burn them out.
Big Brother gets bigger and more intrusive.
And yet they won’t help if you are involved in a hit and run accident to find the driver that fled the scene. “Sorry, the cameras are run by AI, and they were monitoring grandma jaywalking across the street”
If you get a “ticket” from a traffic camera in Tennessee, just throw the notice in the trash. It isn’t a real ticket and cannot affect your driving record and isn’t even sent out by the police. It’s sent out by a private company that made a deal with the mayor or city council telling them they will get them a lot of money from the traffic cam.
A friend wants to know if they are bullet proof and to what caliber?
The stupid courts will say there is no expectation of privacy in public.
Same is true everywhere else.
If the traffic cam ticket does not include contact information for the court system where you can go to contest the ticket, it's a fake ticket.
From the article: “Instead, they look for violations, like failure to wear a seat belt or texting while driving.”
Both of which are violations of traffic laws. They should also look for using cell phones while holding them in your hands.
So it starts. Using AI to monitor and control people. This will result in many false positives, where the angle of the shot, the lighting, reflections off the windshield and shadows will combine to produce something that is interpreted as a violation.
Then try to prove the computer was wrong.
The Chinese and Russians will simply arrange for Joe’s two-legged, light-fingered imports to steal the cameras and take the chips out of them for use in Chinese and Russian weapons.
And here we have an example of "AI" technology already being abused.
It will be abused, because it CAN be abused.
Intercepting your communications devices?
Speculation on places you might be expected to speed--when you're not currently speeding--and sending a cop to catch you (hoping against hope) or claim that he did?
We can't tolerate scofflaws, after all.
People drinking a soda while they drive will be pulled over for possible DUI.
The camera was certain it was a beer. Grounds for defamation.
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