Couple slapped with $2200 in seatbelt fines by AI cameras

Exclusive: A driver has been slugged with back-to-back fines totalling more than $2000 and 24 demerit points by Western Australia's new AI-based cameras.

But she wasn't told about the fines until weeks after the fact, and her husband insists they wouldn't have been issued at all if a human officer had pulled her over.

Tina* was first caught by an AI camera on November 30 last year.

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Tina was snapped with her seatbelt under her arm by an AI-based camera in WA.

It snapped her driving with her seatbelt tucked under her arm on the Kwinana Freeway in Perth's southern suburbs.

It's an offence to wear a seatbelt improperly in all Australian states and territories.

Over the next three weeks, the same camera snapped Tina with her seatbelt under her arm three more times.

Tina wasn't notified until more than a month later, when four nearly identical fines hit her mailbox in January.

"All of a sudden we get a flurry, a rampage of tickets generated by an artificially intelligent machine with no human intervention," her husband James told nine.com.au.

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