How pioneering AI camera is targeting drink and drug drivers by detecting their behaviour
DRINK and drug drivers are being targeted with a pioneering AI camera.
The mobile tech can detect driving behaviour consistent with those who may be under the influence at the wheel.
Police further up the road can then stop the vehicle, talk to the driver and do a roadside test for alcohol and narcotics.
A trial is under way in Devon and Cornwall.
The Heads Up system was developed by Australian firm Acusensus, whose devices have previously been used to help police catch drivers using mobile phones at the wheel or not wearing seatbelts.
The firm’s UK boss Geoff Collins said: “We are delighted to be conducting the world’s first trials of this technology.
“We are all safer if we can detect impairment before it causes an incident that could ruin lives.”
Supt Simon Jenkinson’s team polices around 14,000 miles of roads in Devon and Cornwall.
He said: “Our officers cannot be everywhere.
“We’re committed to doing everything we can to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on our roads.
“Embracing emerging technology such as these cameras is vital in that quest.”