The NSW Government's mobile phone detection cameras, heralded as "world-first" road safety technology, work by capturing wide-angled images of all passing drivers and front passengers through the windscreens of cars to check if they're using a phone while behind the wheel.
License plate readers posted at both entrances to an upscale Aurora neighborhood snapped pictures of passing cars Wednesday, recording the type, color and license plate number of each vehicle and inputting that information into a database.