This spring, a Southern California beach town will end up being the very first city in the nation where community parking enforcement lorries will utilize an AI system searching for possible bike lane offenses.

Starting in April, the City of Santa Monica will bring Hayden AI’s scanning innovation to 7 vehicles in its parking enforcement fleet, broadening beyond comparable electronic cameras currently installed on city buses.

“The more we can minimize the quantity of prohibited parking, the much safer we can make it for bike riders,” Charley Territo, primary development officer at Hayden AI, informed Ars.

Hayden AI’s bus video cameras, developed to identify bike lane and bus zone offenses, presently exist in 2 other California cities: Oakland and Sacramento. The business likewise has setups around the nation, consisting of New York City, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia. In September 2025, the business revealed that it had actually set up 2,000 systems on buses worldwide.

Late in 2015, over a 59-day duration, Hayden AI likewise stated its innovation found over 1,100 parking infractions at the University of California, San Diego– and 88 percent of those were circumstances of obstructing a bike lane.

Hayden AI states it offers its item to towns and associated entities to not only boost bus speed (by getting rid of blockages) however likewise enhance security.

“We do that by [reducing] among the most significant reasons for crashes with buses– vacating their lanes,” Territo included. “So the less times they need to make a turn, the less circumstances there are [of a crash]”