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The city is wiring up 100 intersections to make streets safer, out of 6,000 miles, for about $300,000

NYC DOT is scaling up privacy-protective street sensors to 100 intersections, out of 6,000 miles of streets, for about $300,000. The catch is data.

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The city is wiring up 100 intersections to make streets safer, out of 6,000 miles, for about $300,000

NYC DOT is scaling up privacy-protective street sensors to 100 intersections, out of 6,000 miles of streets, for about $300,000. The catch is data.

The city is wiring up 100 intersections to make streets safer, out of 6,000 miles, for about $300,000
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NYC DOT has a new pitch for safer streets, and it comes with cameras. On June 2, Commissioner Mike Flynn announced the city is rolling out “privacy-protective” street activity sensors, scaling up from a 2023 pilot of 20 intersections to about 100 locations citywide, with one of the new sensors going up in Greenpoint. “Safer street design starts with understanding what is actually happening on the street,” Flynn said.

The sensors do sound careful. DOT says the video is processed in real time and immediately discarded, faces and license plates obscured, only anonymous counts kept. They can spot where…

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