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Buses in Wiesbaden, Germany are being equipped with a camera to catch illegally parked cars (www.tagesschau.de)
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I couldn't find an English language source, so here are some excerpts from the German one, translated with deepl [Stuff in brackets are additions by me]:

Wiesbanden bus driver Antonio Lopes recently got a yellow button next to his steering wheel: if he sees a parking offender blocking the bus lane or a bus stop, he can trigger the front camera. [...] The images are sent to the traffic authorities. Drivers face a fine of around 70 euros. If they park in an environmental lane that is only intended for buses and bicycles, they will also receive a point in Flensburg. [Collect too many points and you loose your drivers licence]

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 6 hours ago

It'd be cool if cyclists could sign up for a program like this. Just a little box on the handlebars that you press a button and it takes and sends a picture

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

My city has an app for submitting traffic complaints that automatically grabs your location and asks for a photo of the offending vehicle and plate - and they've actually followed-up by sending people to confirm the violation and issue tickets. I've reported so many stupid trucks parked in bike lanes and motorcycles parked on sidewalks lol - carbrains are so obsessed with driving but can't seem to do it properly ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[-] [email protected] 3 points 39 minutes ago

Here: you dropped this \

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago

They don't make an SD card large enough for me to take that many photos. I spend almost half of the street portion of my ride dodging cars parked in the bike lane. It's quite the contrast to when I'm in the woods on single track.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

In germany there is weg.li thats is almost as good. It also fills in automatically most of the infos on the cars so you can send the stuff yourself pretty quickly

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