The Montreal Sustainable Mobility Agency is currently testing two vehicles equipped with advanced artificial intelligence technologies in order to detect vehicles parked in violation on the streets of the metropolis.
The pilot project, which is to be launched in the summer of 2025, plans to deploy 13 of these high-tech cars on the streets of the Outremont borough and in the Mile-End district.
Equipped with cameras that take hundreds of photos per minute of the license plates of vehicles parked on the streets, these cars are equipped with computers equipped with artificial intelligence systems that check almost instantly whether the vehicles photographed are parked in violation.
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These cameras installed on the roof of vehicles take hundreds of photos per minute and allow the on-board artificial intelligence system to check in real time if each vehicle crossed is parked in violation.
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The officer driving the car equipped with detectors on the roof can therefore know within a minute the number of potentially infringing cars on the section of street he has just traveled.
According to Maxime Rivard of the Sustainable Mobility Agency, the objective of purchasing this new equipment is not to increase the number of fines, but rather to help parking officers work more easily.
The goal is really to help agents, to make their job easier by having more tools to do their work.
indicates Mr. Rivard.
Often you have to drive at 30 km/h while monitoring both sides of the road with your eyes, it’s more complicated to stay attentive to everything around you [pendant la conduite]
explains Maxime Rivard, who points out that such systems are already in operation in other large Canadian cities such as Calgary or Vancouver.
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As with photo radar, the photos serve as evidence to demonstrate and validate the offense.
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But what will happen to the hundreds of thousands of photos collected every day by these vehicles? According to the Sustainable Mobility Agency, all photos are destroyed at the end of the day with the exception of those showing vehicles potentially parked in violation. We add that all the faces that appear in the photos collected are blurred to ensure the confidentiality of these people.
The City will allocate $2.5 million to implement this pilot project, starting next summer.
With information from Rowan Kennedy
With information from CBC News
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