How do the police scan INSIDE your car ?

MouldyOldDough

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/driving/2025-10/phenomenal-ai-camera-trial-already-changing-driver-behaviour/

Just wondered what technology allowed them to look through metal ?

paul_c123

The range of electromagnetic frequencies they're scanning will be able to reflect off planes such as the windscreen, metal bodywork, etc. 

HumberFlyer

Looking through metal ?..... is it not just getting all it's info from seeing through the windscreen

Frozen_up_north

It's not viewing through metal, only through glass. Also be aware that speed camera operators also record seat belt, phone use and incorrectly arranged number plates too. Last year we had a visitor that had a cheeky number plate that spelt his name, he was grumbling that he had received a fixed penalty notice in the post for an incorrectly spaced number plate that had been recorded by a speed camera van operator. North Yorkshire Police upload a spreadsheet of locations and offences recorded by their speed camera van operators:

https://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/police-forces/north-yorkshire-police/areas/stats-and-data/stats-and-data/safety-camera-deployment/

Mildly_Miffed

MouldyOldDough said:

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/driving/2025-10/phenomenal-ai-camera-trial-already-changing-driver-behaviour/

Just wondered what technology allowed them to look through metal ?

A revolutionary technology called "glass with a minimum legal light transmission of 75%"...

https://www.acusensus.com/solutions/heads-up/

flaneurs_lobster

Mildly_Miffed said:

That's a dog on the front passenger seat - if that's not an offence then it should be.

twopenny

Well they'll be busy!
A good 30 pc of drivers I see round town here are eating, drinking, on phone or vaping.
Those in lorries going round small roundabouts are downright scary. Two different ones drove into a school fence. One smiling said to me 'i was watching videos '

I'm not saying I've never done it back in the day, smoking back then, but only on quiet roads I knew well. Never in traffic.

Baldytyke88

twopenny said:

Well they'll be busy!
A good 30 pc of drivers I see round town here are eating, drinking, on phone or vaping.
Those in lorries going round small roundabouts are downright scary. Two different ones drove into a school fence. One smiling said to me 'i was watching videos '

I once stood at the side of the road after lighting up time and watched 20 cars go past, 4 of them, which is 20%, had defective or no lights.

Of course, the police catch cars without insurance etc when an officer stops a car, but AI could catch numerous acts of wrong doing and send the registered keeper a fine.

WellKnownSid

I think we’re really scratching the surface of what AI can do in terms of crime detection - at my last startup we were able to make lots of surprisingly accurate judgements about retail customers as they were walking into a store and way before they made a purchase - including the ones at high risk of stealing.  

Pretty soon traffic enforcement will look more like Minority Report where police know about the crime before the driver decides to commit it.

Aretnap

Probably the same technology on display here 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P1WcnPLSMAM

Grumpy_chap

MouldyOldDough said:

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/driving/2025-10/phenomenal-ai-camera-trial-already-changing-driver-behaviour/

Just wondered what technology allowed them to look through metal ?

Cars have windows.

I am sure there was a thread on this a while back.

EDIT - Found it.  I hope the OP finds it interesting.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/80870884#Comment_80870884?utm_source=community-search&utm_medium=organic-search&utm_term=see+through+metal+