• This spring, a Southern California beach town will become the first city in the country where municipal parking enforcement vehicles will use an AI system looking for potential bike lane violations. • Beginning in April, the City of Santa Monica will bringHayden AI’s scanning technologyto seven cars in its parking enforcement fleet, expanding beyond similar cameras already mounted on city buses. • “The more we can reduce the amount of illegal parking, the safer we can make it for bike riders,” Charley Territo, chief growth officer at Hayden AI, told Ars. • Hayden AI’s bus cameras, designed to detect bike lane and bus zone violations, currently exist in two other California cities: Oakland and Sacramento. • The company also has installations around the country, including New York City, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia. • In September 2025, the companyannouncedthat it had installed 2,000 systems on buses worldwide.

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  • This spring, a Southern California beach town will become the first city in the country where municipal parking enforcement vehicles will use an AI system looking for potential bike lane violations. Beginning in April, the City of Santa Monica will bring Hayden AI’s scanning technology to seven cars in its parking enforcement fleet, expanding beyond similar cameras already mounted on city buses. “The more we can reduce the amount of illegal parking, the safer we can make it for bike riders,” Charley Territo, chief growth officer at Hayden AI, told Ars. Hayden AI’s bus cameras, designed to dete

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