{"id":10569,"date":"2014-04-02T15:39:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T15:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=10569"},"modified":"2014-04-02T15:39:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T15:39:53","slug":"congo-employs-traffic-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=10569","title":{"rendered":"Congo employs traffic robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10572\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10572\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/229859EC71574BDCBC412D65CC93C0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10572\" alt=\"Kinshasa has been known for its bumper to bumper traffic, the DR Congo has been up in arms for a while about how to relieve daily commuters of the added stress. \" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/229859EC71574BDCBC412D65CC93C0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/229859EC71574BDCBC412D65CC93C0.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/229859EC71574BDCBC412D65CC93C0-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kinshasa has been known for its bumper to bumper traffic, the DR Congo has been up in arms for a while about how to relieve daily commuters of the added stress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A novel solution has been found for the problems, which include corrupt police, traffic offences and hours in unmoving queues. The city has introduced two giant traffic robots and they couldn&#8217;t have come at a better time.<\/p>\n<p>The robots are connected to a central computer, and have built in cameras, which report traffic offences in real-time. This eliminates the risks of any dodgy dealings, such as bribes. The lack of humanity makes enforcing the law simple.<\/p>\n<p>They are shaped like human traffic cops, with traffic lights on their back and chest.<\/p>\n<p>Designed by Theresa Izay, the owner of a company aimed at promoting the employment of female engineers explained how the innovative traffic helpers work, &#8220;When the robot captures images, they are sent over the Internet to a centre where they are stored and could be used to prosecute people who have committed offences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The need for these robots emerged because drivers and pedestrians alike complained about the dodgy dealings, and laziness of the traffic officers.<\/p>\n<p>The robots are prototypes, but after hundreds of potentially dangerous intersections were identified in Kinshasa alone, there is talk of employing many more.<\/p>\n<p>One pedestrian comments, &#8220;When the robot stops the traffic you can see that everybody stops and the pedestrians can cross without a problem&#8230; and the traffic police bother us too much. Let&#8217;s leave robots to do the job&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: african.howzit.msn.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novel solution has been found for the problems, which include corrupt police, traffic offences and hours in unmoving queues. The city has introduced two giant traffic robots and they couldn&#8217;t have come at a better time. The robots are connected to a central computer, and have built in cameras, which report traffic offences in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-10569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}