NYC Tests Lasers, Thermal Cameras to Stop Subway Deaths

Can high tech gizmos like lasers, motion sensors, thermal cameras and smart video software prevent people from dying on the subway tracks?

The New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) wants to find out. The authority is working on a pilot program to evaluate four different systems to detect when somebody falls on the tracks and stop trains from hitting the person

The MTA will install the systems in a subway station to test if they're viable and consider whether to install them throughout the city in hopes of stopping an increasing number of injuries and deaths on the tracks, as first reported by The New York Daily News, and confirmed to Mashable by the MTA Read more...