11-09

2022

Drones become "little experts" in traffic management

With the maturity of the civil UAV manufacturing industry, the quality and performance of related products have been improved, and the price is more reasonable, which makes the application of UAVs in government affairs such as fire rescue, traffic management, and environmental protection supervision more and more common. In China, local government departments are actively purchasing drones to strengthen management and law enforcement capabilities and improve work efficiency. In June 2018, the elevated brigade of the Changzhou Traffic Police Detachment said at a press conference that drones have been used on the city's elevated roads to assist in the investigation and punishment of traffic violations, mainly capturing and receiving phone calls, crimping lines, not wearing seat belts, trucks breaking into restricted areas, illegal parking, etc. In two weeks of using drone capture, more than 100 traffic violations were captured. During the 2018 National Day holiday, the Chengdu high-speed traffic police in Sichuan Province carried out high-speed traffic rectification work and used drones and other equipment. Since October 6, the Chengdu traffic police have deployed police forces on the Ring Expressway, Chengguan Expressway, Chengwenqiong Expressway, Chengpeng Expressway and other municipal highways, and used drones to capture illegal acts occupying emergency lanes. In February 2019, due to the large number of tourists during the Spring Festival, in order to better manage traffic order and ensure traffic safety, the traffic police corps of the Hainan Public Security Department used drones to carry out aerial patrol law enforcement, extending the coverage of law enforcement, and capturing a total of 130 traffic violations. In addition, traffic police departments in Shanghai, Fujian, Shandong, Shaanxi and other provinces and cities have also used drones to assist in traffic enforcement. In the face of more and more "air traffic police", many netizens said that the use of new technologies such as drones not only reflects the innovation of traffic management departments, uses them for change, and effectively puts new technologies and new products into practical applications to maintain traffic safety and order, but also reflects the increasing popularity of technological products such as drones and shows positive value. Some netizens believe that drones assist in law enforcement, which is indeed conducive to traffic management and improving the efficiency of traffic management departments, but it cannot be ignored that drones may also involve security, privacy and other issues in the process of law enforcement. If the drone captures personal privacy and is leaked, or the drone suddenly loses control during the mission, resulting in falling and injuring people, how to determine the responsibility? The different opinions of netizens have their reasons. At present, whether it is applied to traffic management or other fields, the privacy and security problems faced by drone products are universal. It's just that relatively speaking, when used as a law enforcement tool, drones receive more attention and responsibility.


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