The U.K. has recently installed artificial intelligence street speed cameras that have the capability of peering inside people’s vehicles, the first in the world, which has caused a bit of controversy and pushback.
This means that British drivers could get tagged for things like texting while driving or occupying a vehicle without wearing a seatbelt, or if too many people are crammed into the car.
The camera was installed in in Lambeth, South London. It ca surveil six lanes of traffic at once and will be used in conjunction with other cameras on the roads.
RAC reports the new AI unit from Redspeed International utilizes super high-spec ‘4D’ radar and super-resolution cameras, which can be linked to ‘DVLA and UK police databases to check tax and insurance. This can then be used to help with a prosecution of drivers breaking the law,’ the outlet noted.
Redspeed 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.
The company states on its website
There are of course critics to this intrusion.
Brian Gregory, from the Alliance of British Drivers, said:
It’s clear that the hollow assurances the motoring public was given about speed cameras being used exclusively to prevent accidents was always a total sham.
The objective is actually to maximise their revenue-generating potential.
Jake Hurfurt, Head of Big Brother Watch, added:
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.
But RAC road safety spokesman Simon Williams says that residents will need to accept it, proceeding the news of a trial in London of the new type of traffic enforcement camera. He said:
While some drivers may criticise these cameras for unwanted snooping, the reality is that these days the police increasingly rely on technology to catch drivers breaking the law – after all, it’s impossible to have a police officer stationed on every street corner.
When it comes to drivers using handheld phones illegally, we also know from research that drivers are broadly supportive of camera-based technology being used to enforce the law.
Having said that, given the increasing sophistication of cameras and the potential for AI to play a role in the future, it’s absolutely vital these cameras are set up correctly and there’s an easy means of drivers challenging penalties and fines which they think are unwarranted.
Drivers who stick to the speed limit and obey the law have nothing to worry about regardless of what cameras are in place. It’s also worth remembering that – unlike in other countries – all cameras have to be painted yellow, so they’re plainly visible to drivers.
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“Drivers who stick to the speed limit and obey the law have nothing to worry about regardless of what cameras are in place.” -Yup, nevermind the overreach and surveillance: suck it up and deal with it. Make sure those hands are at 10 and 2, and don’t be caught picking your nose or adjusting the radio.
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Jeremiah 5:26
More AI = more enslavement.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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This sins against liberty that God gives to makind.
its also rooted in hypocrisy because it only applies to the civilians and not to the rich or politicians or the globalists or the elites, not even for the police themselves or religious leaders alied with rome. 2 Peter 2:19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
but guess what? Romans 8:21
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
2Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Galatians 5:13
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Jeremiah 34:17
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Psalms 119:45
And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
James 2:12
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
1 Peter 2:16
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
1 Corinthians 8:9
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Sweet, sweet Magnolia, excellent post.