Council Member Wilson asks about benchmarks for sidewalk detection technology
Wilson asks what benchmarks DOT would need to see to consider the technology accurate, and DOT says the main concern is distinguishing between curbside bike lanes and sidewalks.
Are there certain benchmarks that you would be looking to meet in order to say that this technology is accurate and could work?
Yeah, I think our biggest concern is where you have, let's say, a curbside bike lane that's right next to the sidewalk.
Is the, you know, like the geofencing or the tracking, basically, of the location, is it sensitive enough to be able to distinguish that, such that if you are in the roadway on a device,
and it thinks you're on the sidewalk, and so it starts to slow you down, what might the consequences of that be?
That's our concern.
I think as a general rule, we always want to explore new things, but because of the scale of New York and the implications, legal liability costs, whatever they may be in a city this big,
We want to do pilot projects.
We want to kind of see something.
We want to learn from other places before we commit to large-scale adoption here.