Game changing smartphone app gathers evidence of speeding(transportxtra.com) |
Game changing smartphone app gathers evidence of speeding(transportxtra.com) |
- take a video of someone double parking: fine
- take a video of someone idling their car too long: fine
Once it gets a critical mass (I’d estimate a relatively small usage around 15%) I’d imagine traffic law breaking will go away for the most part.
The inability to know when you might be recorded and consequently fined would lead most to simply stop doing it.
The only other necessary thing would be to increase fines to be more in line with the ability to pay to be a useful deterrent.
Add in a kickback of say 30% to those who report once fine is collected and you’ve just created a highly motivated, distributed and invisible traffic law enforcement apparatus.
There are some technical challenges to be solved, though.
But I think that something like the 30% kick-back will result in a massive increase of people who will somehow construct issues artificially, just to make more money. IMHO it should be plenty to just provide a simple way to report actual annoyances.
Police equipment is certified as calibrated regularly to prove its accurate. Your phone footage could be anything and no AI is going to change that.
Seeing a car approach at an unreasonable speed I hold up my phone and, miraculously, the car suddenly slows down and makes room for me to pass. Quite impressive really.
I think that would work the same even if you have not video recording activated, i.e. holding up any coloured rectangle would work as well, the case you need the video is only when it doesn't work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoPhone
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nophone-usa/the-new-and...
(I think the company went out of business recently, though)