A busy intersection in Yokine is the latest location to come under the watch of a new AI-powered camera designed to detect near-misses between vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists.<\/p>\n
The non-enforcement near-miss camera has been installed at the intersection of Alexander Drive and Wordsworth Avenue as part of a road safety initiative between the City of Stirling and Road Safety Commission.<\/p>\n
The portable camera uses AI software to analyse video, providing real-time insights into near-miss events, including severity levels and risk ratings.<\/p>\n
It can track drivers\u2019 speeds, measure distances between road users and identify different transport types.<\/p>\n
It was installed on Tuesday, June 16, and is one of six being deployed across the metropolitan area.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The intersection in Yokine has previously been the subject of potential upgrades and community consultation on a proposal to restrict right-hand turns from Wordsworth Avenue onto Alexander Drive.<\/p>\n
However, with 86 per cent of the 357 respondents to the consultation objecting to the proposal, the City of Stirling resolved not to proceed at its meeting in August 2025.<\/p>\n
The information collected at the site is expected to help identify risk factors and guide the introduction of safety treatments if needed.<\/p>\n
The City of Stirling said the installation of the camera was supported by Mt Lawley MLA Frank Paolino after ongoing resident concerns about the safety of the intersection.<\/p>\n
According to the Road Safety Commission, the data collected from the cameras is de-identified through facial, number plate and vehicle blurring before being uploaded to a dashboard.<\/p>\n
It can then be studied and used by local councils to help plan road safety improvements and decide where upgrades to roads and intersections are needed.<\/p>\n
The first trial of the AI technology, delivered by Australian company LAB3, in North Perth last year revealed dozens of daily near-misses, prompting plans for safety upgrades at the busy inner-city intersection.<\/p>\n
The camera detected an average of 38 close calls every day at the intersection of Fitzgerald and Angove streets, with 99 per cent being right-angle near misses or \u2018T-bone\u2019 crashes.<\/p>\n
The camera at the intersection in Yokine is expected to remain in place until September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A busy intersection in Yokine is the latest location to come under the watch of a new AI-powered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,44,47,46,42796,105,45],"class_list":["post-763062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-north","tag-perth","tag-stirling","tag-technology","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}