This is a discriminatory piece of technology

The BBC report that:

"A new road camera that counts car occupants by detecting blood and water content on skin is being tested. How does it work? ...

But a solution could be provided by a new camera that counts humans by detecting the unique "signature" provided by the blood-water content of human skin...

"We wanted to be able to spot humans, as opposed to inflatable dolls and mannequins. We thought 'What is humanness?'

"We couldn't go on skin pigment, but infra-red rays see all skin in the same colour."

Blood and water is one of the things that determines we are human, he says, so he developed a system that detects human skin."


Can you spot the blatant discrimination? What if the front seat passenger in the car is a Muslim woman wearing a burka? Would that not be enough skin to be detected by these devices? If not then I forsee legal problems ahead...