MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations
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MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations
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Re: MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations
#2If you prevent government from launching technologies for every software bug / mistake, you will get a bloated government which will do everything manually increasing it's cost to taxpayers and decrease in quality of services.
The key is still to launch fast and iterate over bugs especially in the realm of traffic / parking violations which at the most causes annoyances to people ( I mean the same people are willing to sit in front of Holland Tunnel for an hour )
Re: MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations
#3If you prevent government from launching technologies for every software bug / mistake, you will get a bloated government which will do everything manually increasing it's cost to taxpayers and decrease in quality of services. The key is still to launch fast and iterate over bugs especially in the realm of traffic / parking violations which at the most causes annoyances to people ( I mean the same people are willing…
Seems like the premise you’re going with here is a false dichotomy.
There’s no reason this project had to issue parking violations from launch - it could issue soft warnings and get the same feedback from impacted civilians to fix the issues before causing them undue distress.
Re: MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations
#4If you prevent government from launching technologies for every software bug / mistake, you will get a bloated government which will do everything manually increasing it's cost to taxpayers and decrease in quality of services. The key is still to launch fast and iterate over bugs especially in the realm of traffic / parking violations which at the most causes annoyances to people ( I mean the same people are willing…
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Re: MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations
#5Despite the "A.I." in the headline, the source of the errors seems to be bad categorical data input and nothing AI related. The same problem likely could've happened with human traffic enforcement if they were given the wrong instructions.
Re: MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations
#6If you prevent government from launching technologies for every software bug / mistake, you will get a bloated government which will do everything manually increasing it's cost to taxpayers and decrease in quality of services. The key is still to launch fast and iterate over bugs especially in the realm of traffic / parking violations which at the most causes annoyances to people ( I mean the same people are willing…
Seems like the premise you’re going with here is a false dichotomy. There’s no reason this project had to issue parking violations from launch - it could issue soft warnings and get the same feedback from impacted civilians to fix the issues before causing them undue distress.
That seemed to be the plan, but the city or contracting company was too incompetent to pull it off.
Re: MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations
#7If you prevent government from launching technologies for every software bug / mistake, you will get a bloated government which will do everything manually increasing it's cost to taxpayers and decrease in quality of services. The key is still to launch fast and iterate over bugs especially in the realm of traffic / parking violations which at the most causes annoyances to people ( I mean the same people are willing…
Maybe government tries to do too much.
Re: MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations
#8If you prevent government from launching technologies for every software bug / mistake, you will get a bloated government which will do everything manually increasing it's cost to taxpayers and decrease in quality of services. The key is still to launch fast and iterate over bugs especially in the realm of traffic / parking violations which at the most causes annoyances to people ( I mean the same people are willing…
Maybe government tries to do too much.
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Re: MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations
#9Despite the "A.I." in the headline, the source of the errors seems to be bad categorical data input and nothing AI related. The same problem likely could've happened with human traffic enforcement if they were given the wrong instructions.
In some German cities, bus driver simply hit a camera button when actually being blocked. Sounds like a good filter for this use case?
Re: MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations
#10If you prevent government from launching technologies for every software bug / mistake, you will get a bloated government which will do everything manually increasing it's cost to taxpayers and decrease in quality of services. The key is still to launch fast and iterate over bugs especially in the realm of traffic / parking violations which at the most causes annoyances to people ( I mean the same people are willing…
Maybe government tries to do too much.
Okay. Do you drive? Would you support bounties for ordinary people to enforce parking?