ULEZ (Ultra Low Emission Zones) is about stopping everyone else having to breathe in your car farts when it badly burns its dead dinosaur juice.

However, most details got lost in a far-right frenzy mixed in with the usual anti-Sadiq Khan rhetoric. Like the fact that your petrol car is probably older than 2009 if it isn't ULEZ compliant. And that there were / are scrappage schemes to help people upgrade vehicles. And that we're talking about London (and surrounding areas) that already have a better service of public transport - and that ULEZ funds go back into further investment into...

Or the fact that "Blade Runners" wouldn't just cut down the cameras, but often the whole traffic light that the camera sat on top of... so pedestrians and other road users were at risk because they've screwed up traffic safety equipment.

But please, do continue to praise right-wing thugs that eventually got bored of this and then moved on to rioting outside migrant hostels and pinning up union flags everywhere.

ULEZ cameras. They may or may not be "AI".

Their motivation seems more directed as the Mayor rather than protecting anyone's individual freedoms.

Be careful when ascribing motivations. This group has every sign of being racist climate denial rganf ather than freedom loving anarchists.

Hopefully I am incorrect, we would need more information to confirm or deny these impressions

No no no.
These cameras are not "ai", they're ANPR cameras used to enforce the ULEZ regulations which are there to limit the use of cars in order to reduce pollution.
These people are right-wingers who object to having their freedom to pollute limited. Absolutely nothing to celebrate.

thanks to those charges, statistics show deaths in London from air polution are down.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/ulez-activists-attacking-cameras-blade-runners-DWzXP4_2/

Its not "ai" cameras as such, simple automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) and so traditional character recognition and it is used to enforce the Ultra Low Emissions Zone that is in place in London to reduce pollution and improve air-quality

If it were facial recognition I'd be all for this, but personally I like breathing clean air so don't really agree with the choice of targets, smacks of nimby-ism.

I think the politicians aren't listening to the people. Too many kick-backs involved, maybe?

It makes me want to go on a long walk with a battery powered 3 inch cutting wheel. I'm not ever running for office... who cares if I risk getting caught, right?

https://mastodon.social/@poleguy/116899243484213883

https://automology.com/blade-runners-uk-camera-sabotage/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Low_Emission_Zone#Vandalism

In my state in Brazil, they've reported a ludicrous increase in fines for people driving without a seatbelt. An AI-equipped camera can determine if a driver is wearing a seatbelt, using a smartphone, or having other illegal behavior from the top of a totem pole.