Driverless superbike to help patrol highways

Charles Bombardier from Canadian company Imaginactive, has designed a super-fast, driverless motorbike - Interceptor. It will patrol highways and city streets in the future, doling out tickets to lawbreakers via email.

The motorcycle would seamlessly scan license plates and record offenders using real-time video. If a violation is recorded, the drone could automatically issue citations via e-mail, text message or even traditional post.

According to Bombardier, one police officer could supervise five Interceptor units.

Sources:

• Police superbikes: The new breed of driverless vehicles
• Driverless Police Interceptor superbike concept is a speeder’s worst nightmare

Dutch police tests augmented reality

Dutch police tests augmented reality. Set-up consists of a smartphone camera stuck to the officer’s shoulder, and another phone wrapped around their wrist, which can be used to mark evidence or leave notes about a crime scene.

The police also seeks applications for patrol officers. They could use the technology as an easy way of navigation by overlaying directions on the real world, or indicating the origin of a call to the local emergency phone number.

Sources:

• Dutch Police Want to Use Augmented Reality to Solve Crimes
• Dutch police looking to fight crime with augmented reality