The growing use of AI-powered traffic cameras is making road-rule enforcement faster and more efficient. However, it is also creating fresh difficulties for parents who routinely use two-wheelers to drop off and pick up two children from school. With AI cameras now automatically detecting triple riding, parents risk receiving traffic challans even when the other two are young schoolchildren. Triple riding is against traffic regulations, and road safety must remain the priority. Yet there is a need to consider the practical realities faced by families. A parent transporting two little children is very different from three adults riding together. A possible solution would be to introduce a clearly defined exception or regulatory provision allowing one adult to transport two children on a two-wheeler, subject to appropriate safety requirements. Such an exception could apply only when the two passengers are children and no additional adult is occupying the rear seat. Alternatively, authorities could establish a system through which genuine school-related cases can be verified and challans reviewed. The objective of traffic enforcement should not merely be to issue penalties but to improve safety while recognizing everyday realities.
ADELMO FERNANDES, Vasco
