University researchers published a plain-language audit of a traffic-camera algorithm the city has been testing at four junctions. The camera flagged missing helmets more reliably than it read number plates in the rain, which is the reverse of what the early briefing claimed.
The audit used footage the traffic police already store. It did not add new cameras. The authors said that choice matters because a test on clean sample clips had been the basis of the vendor’s demonstration.
What happens next
Police officials accepted the rain finding and said plate reading is a secondary use. Their priority at those junctions is helmet compliance among riders who are already stopped. A fine that depends on a misread plate, they said, will not be issued from this trial.
The researchers asked the city to publish the error counts beside any future claim. The vendor has been invited to reply in the same plain format, without a slide deck.
Taj Today will update this report if the official numbers or the timetable change. Related coverage stays on the Technology page.
