Driver hit with $2,200 in seat belt fines by AI cameras

Driver hit with ,200 in seat belt fines by AI cameras

By Maddison Leach
Publication Date: 2026-04-03 20:04:00

However, she was not informed of the fines until weeks after the crime, and her husband insists they would not have been imposed at all if a human officer had stopped her.

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

Tina was filmed with her seatbelt under her arm by an AI-based camera in WA. (Included)

She was caught driving on the Kwinana Freeway in Perth’s southern suburbs with her seatbelt tucked under her arm.

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

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

“Suddenly there is a flood of tickets generated by an artificially intelligent machine without human intervention,” her husband James told nine.com.au.

A spokesperson for WA’s Department of Transport told nine.com.au: “While all infringements are typically reported within a month of being recorded, this timeframe may vary depending on…