{"id":1009748,"date":"2026-05-25T09:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009748"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:50:45","slug":"bangladesh-puts-ai-in-driving-seat-to-tackle-terrible-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/25\/bangladesh-puts-ai-in-driving-seat-to-tackle-terrible-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh puts AI in driving seat to tackle terrible traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka: Bangladesh&#8217;s densely populated capital, infamous for grinding gridlock, has launched its first AI-powered traffic enforcement system in a bid to bring order to one of the world&#8217;s most congested cities. <\/p>\n<p>Across Dhaka, buses, cars, motorcycles and pedal rickshaws jostle for space &#8212; seeming to treat signals, pedestrian crossings and even traffic police as obstacles to overcome. <\/p>\n<p>On-the-spot police fines often spark arguments, confrontations are common, and officers are sometimes struck by vehicles refusing to obey commands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka: Bangladesh&#8217;s densely populated capital, infamous for grinding gridlock, has launched its first AI-powered traffic enforcement system in a bid to bring order to one of the world&#8217;s most congested cities. Across Dhaka, buses, cars, motorcycles and pedal rickshaws jostle for space &#8212; seeming to treat signals, pedestrian crossings and even traffic police as obstacles to overcome. On-the-spot police fines often spark arguments, confrontations are common, and officers are sometimes struck by vehicles refusing to obey commands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009750,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009748\/revisions\/1009750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}