Canyons School District places artificial intelligence on buses [Video]

SALT LAKE CITY — This school year, Canyons School District has placed artificial intelligence cameras on their school buses. 

The district spent half a million dollars to equip all their buses with artificial intelligence. They are the biggest district in the state to fully utilize the technology.

How it works

The cameras face forward and record the road ahead, but they also record the driver and what’s happening inside the bus.

Canyons School District Lead Dispatcher Matt Curtis says the cameras can tell a driver to speed up or slow down. They can even make a noise if a driver appears to be falling asleep. And it recognizes if the driver makes too harsh of a break or turn.

“If we are going too fast, if we are going over 10 miles per hour over the speed limit for more than 20 seconds, they get an audible ‘please slow down.’ And reverse if you are on the freeway and you are going too slow… It will tell you to …