[toomuchtodo]

https://bgr.com/lifestyle/phone-detecting-cameras-trial/

[Gigachad]

These are being rolled out across Australia. I believe they use computer vision to filter down the data and then pass it on to a human for manual verification. The proof is then a photo of you with a phone in hand.

[dsfyu404ed]

I don't believe for a second that after the initial rollout the system won't be tuned for an "acceptable" false positive rate.

Once a penal colony always a penal colony...

(Not to say that a large majority of Western European and large minority of US jurisdictions won't try to do the same damn thing.)

[nerdchum]

Maybe in Australia where they had Covid camps, something like that could fly but I don't see that flying in America.

they can't make it illegal to check GPS or look at a map or change the radio station and they can't prove you were doing anything more than that.

[bobmaxup]

Seems like it passed the trial: https://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/stayingsafe/mobileph....