Meet the Light Savers: How five El Paso students used AI to speed up emergency response times

On the street outside Joseph Baca's home in El Paso, Texas, there is a traffic light that always seems to be red. Whether the intersection is clear, the traffic waits. He knows that, like most traffic lights in El Paso, this one has a camera. Why, he often said to his family, couldn't the camera be used to monitor the road and control the signal? That question eventually led to the development of an idea that could save not only time but also, potentially, lives.