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New York City Installing Sensors to Detect Pedestrians, Vehicles, and Pretty Much Everything Else

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New York City Installing Sensors to Detect Pedestrians, Vehicles, and Pretty Much Everything Else
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It may sound like yet another rollout of a dystopian surveillance state network of facial recognition cameras — but the New York Department of Transportation’s latest initiative has a far more tame goal in mind: tracking modes of transport to improve street design.



According to the Gothamist, the New York Department of Transportation has added 100 roadside sensors across the city in order to pick up data on vehicle, bike, and pedestrian traffic.



The effort is an expansion of a 2023 s

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