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Road/driving tracking devices (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by Dust0741@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Does anyone know more about these devices? Some are obviously cameras, but the others are likely some radio scanning, potentially BLE, but I don't know. Anyone know?

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 15 points 1 day ago

The white brick at the bottom is for detecting large objects (cars) and is either controlling a traffic signal, or is being used to count traffic going through that spot.

An intersection near me uses them to switch the lights at an intersection where traffic almost never comes from, so a timed light is unnecessary, but important traffic still comes from that direction.