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Traffic Camera Captures Woman Driving With Her Phone on Her Lap (Face Down), The State Mailed Her a $1251 'Public Safety' Ticket (www.gadgetreview.com)
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A woman drives with both hands on the wheel. Her phone sits face-down on her lap. No officer pulls her over. No lights flash. Weeks later, a $1,251 ticket arrives in the mail. The evidence: a single frame from a Camera surveillance app. The charge: phone use while driving.

Automated camera companies market their devices as automated license plate readers — tools for catching stolen cars, flagging warrants, and aiding serious investigations.

Sold as a Crime Tool. Used as a Fine Machine.

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[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

obviously LLM-generated article from an odd outlet that publishes five articles every hour

the news is real because it just regurgitates 404media

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Couldn't find it on 404 (ironic) but it was on Yahoo news

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/flock-camera-captures-woman-driving-101504525.html

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

yahoo news is not a news source but a site that republishes articles from other websites. you can tell from the top here that this is the exactly same article from Gadget Review

apparently the 404media part is just a part of the article where it cites previous incidents. so then we don’t even have a source for the meat of the article save a random X thread.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 13 hours ago

Ah yeah even the author is the same

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The summary OP posted is LLM slop as well

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

that’s not a summary; that’s the first paragraphs of the article