The city already uses bus-mounted cameras to catch violations along bus routes.
Santa Monica is expanding its use of AI-equipped cameras to city vehicles to issue citations for blocking bike lanes.
According to reporting by Damien Newton in Streetsblog California, “The move is designed to extend automated monitoring and enforcement of parking violations — especially those that obstruct bike lanes — across the city, not just along bus routes.” Santa Monica already uses bus-mounted cameras to identify violations in bus lanes and along bus routes.
The city will be the first in the United States to use this tech on city parking enforcement vehicles. According to Hayden AI CEO Marty Beard, “Installing Hayden AI technology on parking enforcement vehicles means that Santa Monica can protect every bike lane in the city with automated enforcement — not just bike lanes along bus routes.”
Read the full story: Santa Monica Parking Enforcement Vehicles to Use AI Cameras to Ticket Bike Lane Violations
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