Today the law creating the Automated Offense Treatment Center (CATI). In Maipú and chaired by the Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications, Juan Carlos Muñoz, the mayor of the commune, Tomás Vodanovic, and the executive secretary of the National Traffic Safety Commission (Conaset), Karina Muñoz.
Through this center, a network of cameras will be implemented to control excessive speeding of vehicles, respect for red lights at traffic lights, as well as any violation of traffic regulations. The installation of the mesh of devices will begin with 38 computers.
The automated network will be signposted in the control areas, which will be in charge of the detection, notification and processing of the infractions.
The law authorizes the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (MTT) so that, through the network of automated devices, it can detect:
- Speeding.
- Travel in an urban area with restrictions due to environmental contamination.
- Violation of land transport rules, susceptible to automated capture (use of exclusive route).
It should be noted that in 2019, 184,040 speeding violations were filed in Chile, equivalent to only 3.2% of the vehicle fleet (5,599,733 units). This marginal result results in low compliance with speed limits and a feeling of impunity among drivers, since the probabilities of both being controlled and infracted are low.
“Through the automated control of traffic violations we will be able to reduce these deaths by 30%,” said Minister Muñoz.
After the publication in the Official Gazette, there is a period of six months for the regulation to be drawn up on which a white march of the new law will begin.
