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How do they manage that, with the current surveillance regime? Is all the image processing on device? What's it sampling against? How does it send the tickets? One-way infrared flashes?
I could be wrong but pre-Flock and letting the tech-Bros actually build a survailance state, most traffic cameras were designed to only flash when they caught someone breaking the law and so only send data off the device when needed.
For speed/red light cameras it's trivial, for something like this it's pretty easy to process on device to detect a phone in your hand/lap, but probably does need someone to check for false positives.
It should be, this is simple to do on device (unless it's outsourced to Palantir & frens)
Obviously when it triggers it uploads data.
... So. To the internet?
Image recognition is not computationally cheap. There are more and less expensive ways to do it, but the absolute floor of it turns your phone into a hot plate. So whatever's in there would need to be at least a phone chip.
So it is kept and stored.
Red light/speed cams, triggered on motion sensor boolean when light red or radar speed reading>x.
You don't know what the hell you're talking about, which is fine, but why are you speaking confidently and assuming such good will about proven constant brazen liars saying they're not doing the shit they literally always do?
Lmao.
You can literally detect phones with a raspberryPi the idea that you need to upload it to a server is ridiculous.
You can 'detect phones' via anything with WiFi. Are you trolling? Do you not understand the difference between image processing and simpler more computer readable signals?
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. How are so many people so rabidly and confidently ignorant?
OpenCV is more than capable of detecting a phone AND can easily be run on a PI with a frame rate high enough for traffic monitoring.
I dunno man, what made you that way?