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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Peter Brewer

ACT drivers on notice as phone detection cameras go mobile and unpredictable

The overhead cameras take an image of every vehicle, with artificial intelligence used to screen and discard those vehicles where no offence is detected. Picture supplied

The Melbourne engineer who co-developed the technology behind the mobile phone detection camera has strongly endorsed the ACT government's "anytime, anywhere" deployment strategy for the devices when rolled out across Canberra in 2023.

The three mobile cameras, all on trailers, will be shuffled randomly between around 200 identified crash-prone locations every three days.

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