Garbage trucks analyze thousands of homes with AI-powered cameras

City Detects's Blight Scores can help catch code violations, but critics aren't so sure. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Garbage trucks have a new side hustle: unkempt yard snitches. Garbage trucks now do more than just pick up tossed-out food scraps and junk. In at least four states (California, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas), some city-run sanitation vehicles are being outfitted with AI-equipped cameras from a company called City Detect .