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Did the citizens request it?
by ralusek 8y ago
Did the citizens request it?
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoRequest what? The surveillance system? No. That said many on HN where strong proponents of it when it was announced because it was marketed as providing data the city government could use to make improvements.
- bilbo0s 8y agoImprovements to what? Serious question.
- blackflame7000 8y agoTraffic congestion by studying the build-up of traffic at certain lights
- decebalus1 8y agoI call bullshit. Pneumatic road tubes have been around for a while to gather data about traffic flows.
- blackflame7000 8y agoCameras can be at every intersection all the time and can adapt in real-time to emerging traffic patterns (ie a ballgame ending and a stadium of people hitting the road at once) as well as traffic changes over time from environmental changes
- mastox 8y agoWhy can't pneumatic tubes do this?
- Rebelgecko 8y agoOr inductive sensors
- _underfl0w_ 8y ago...which would required correlating what they're seeing with outside data. That's not something /inherent/ to the device. If you're going to correlate datasets, you could just as easily do it with your sports/weather data and pneumatic tube data.
- blackflame7000 8y agoA camera is cheaper and a camera can measure speed as well as slowdowns and stoppages that a tube simply can't do. A tube was the old way but if you're going to make a new device a camera makes more sense.
- radus 8y agoThing is, that really isn't much of a problem in downtown SD where most of these cameras are.
- torqueTorrent 8y agoTFA said they wanted to account for parking spaces where people had vacated their parking space before their paid time was up. That would be like McDonalds digging through the trash to account for the uneaten food. I wonder where this kind of accounting goes on the balance sheet? Maybe part of the Richard Pryor fund?
- drharby 8y agoMass surveillance was strongly supported? Not what i would expect