Watch out for ‘the cab’
On monday,
Las Palmas mayor Pepa Luzardo and its citizen mobility & security councillor Paulino Montesdeoca presented the capitals’ local police new acquisition. It’s a new “high-tech” surveillance car which will allow to detect and process traffic infractions more easily. This acquisition is part of a security improvement plan i posted earlier about. (read more here)
This new police car, which looks suspiciously like a New York cab, not really to oversee, is equipped with a GPS reciever, a high resolution camera, a license plate acquisition system, an optical character recognition module, a touchscreen and an entire PC in its trunk, being able to detect cars through their license plate. It’ll be able to elaborate parking tickets and other infractions almost on its own.
How you like that?
Some will be pissed, others will think it’s great, but it will surely avoid traffic jams in areas with dense traffic scaring drivers of making double parking.
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