A new speed camera installed alongside a busy UK road is using artificial intelligence to look inside driver's cars - detecting offences such as using a mobile phone or not wearing a seatblet. The camera deploys 4D cameras, radar and high-resolution imaging to detect drivers breaking the rules.
The Redspeed Sentio camera is being trialled on one route ahead of potential roll-out across the country, reports The Sun. The camera can also link to DVLA and police databases to check tax and insurance on the spot.
The camera can monitor traffic across six lanes both day and night, using solar power to ensure it is never off.
The camera has been installed on the A23 in South London as part of a trial before it can be given Home Office approval. element.”
Redspeed International said: “Sentio is designed to be whatever camera you want it to be. In combining several key enforcement applications and having AI at its heart, Redspeed Sentio has the built-in modular flexibility, capability and scalability to meet virtually any future challenge.”
Campaigner Jake Hurfurt, head of Big Brother Watch, told The Sun: “This kind of intrusive and creepy surveillance which treats every passer-by as a potential suspect is excessive and normalising. It poses a threat to everyone’s privacy.
“People should be free to go about their lives without being analysed by faceless AI systems.”
Transport for London said no tickets would be issued during the trial period.
