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Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.::An AI camera system installed along a major road in England caught 300 offenses in its first 3 days.There were 180 seat belt offenses and 117 mobile phone

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just wish they would have one where I live to fine all the people using the HOV lane who aren't supposed to be

Then we watch the numbers plummet and see there's only actually 5% of people using the lane and finally see how useless the hiv lane is so we can just make it a regular third lane.

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The HOV lane is supposed to look empty. If it was packed full of cars, carpooling wouldn't have any advantage because you wouldn't go any faster.

[–] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't work that well around here, cause there's inevitably that one car that refuses to go faster than the rest of the traffic that it's separated from. Or slows down to 10mph when the rest of the highway is stop and go, despite there being a barrier. Then someone gets rear ended because no one was expecting the lane to be going 10mph (and were on their phone), and the accident closes down the lane entirely

Basically, by me, the HOV lane is slower than traffic 90% of the time. Even in stop and go, because that lane is actually the one containing the accident causing the traffic.

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Well, uhh, sounds like you could use some more traffic enforcement there. Maybe with AI and cameras ;)

[–] TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I thought the advantage of carpooling was saving money on gas and car maintenance. Also, environment.