Next from the "holy shit, AI is really happening" file, we learn today that L.A.'s city buses may soon come strapped with their own snitching equipment. The kind of traveling, near-ubiquitous surveillance that would wind up costing drivers money when they fail to follow parking rules.
Okay, maybe it's not that bad.
KTLA reports that Metro is teaming up with a company called Hayden AI with the plan to initially install 100 cameras on city buses. The intent is to have these cameras automatically ticketing drivers who are parked in bus lanes. And destroy John and Sarah Connor (we kid).
The cameras look out of the buses' dashboards, while an onboard computer uses artificial intelligence to analyze the video and automatically issue citations to cars if they are in the way of the bus.
However, a Hayden rep reached out to the channel to say the cameras can "only create evidence" that will then be reviewed by local parking authorities, due to a recently passed law that prevents it from happening automatically.