By – Aditi Gupta
After the installation of AI-powered cameras on the Bengaluru-Mysore Expressway, around 12,000 cases for numerous offences by commuters have been reported in only two weeks. Owners of vehicles will receive challans from their cell phones. Additionally, the police urged drivers using this first expressway in South India to follow by all traffic laws.
Alok Kumar, the Karnataka Additional Director General of Police (Traffic and Road Safety), tweeted a photo that was captured by a camera. where a KSRTC driver may be tracked via a phone.
“No violation can elude the sharp eyes of our powerful cameras on the Bangalore-Mysore Highway, day or night,” he wrote. Please avoid using your phone while operating a vehicle at @KSRTC_Journeys. Please abide with traffic laws.” Take the disobedient driver to task.
On the Bengaluru-Mysore Expressway, 60 cameras were set earlier this month in an effort to detect cars that are racing and causing accidents. When a vehicle exceeds the permitted speed limit, these cameras will immediately issue a traffic ticket.
Of these sixty, forty-eight are Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras, six of which have been placed in each direction. Three further locations have video cameras placed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). The NHAI sent an expert committee to examine and analyze the safety elements on this road in July of last year, as a great deal of accidents had happened since this highway’s creation.