Interesting outcome, wonder if this will change how the law is enforced with passenger which I’d imagine is a large portion of fines.
Relevant section –
Representing himself in court in January, Mr Burton argued it would have been infeasible and potentially unsafe to constantly monitor whether his passenger was wearing his seatbelt during the trip.
In a recording of the court case obtained by the ABC, Magistrate Kerry Magee agreed.
She said it was not reasonable to expect Mr Burton to keep looking across to check it was being worn properly — particularly once they got onto the M1, a freeway in Brisbane, where overhead cameras snapped the infringement.
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good
and middle finger to the boot lickers who will blindly accept TMR’s misunderstanding of the evidential requirement to prove the driver must “ensure”
Using AI to issue fines is dangerously, the onus should be on the government to have the evidence to fine people not for people to argue in court to prove their innocence. This can easily be avoided by having a person double checking the images before issuing a fine.