First attempts last year to record and identify faces of drivers as they zip along the highway at the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge have failed, according to an internal Metropolitan Transportation Authority email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Experts say there are significant technical challenges and privacy concerns related to capturing the faces of drivers through their windshield as they pass by at speed. But the state-controlled MTA, which handles 900,000 vehicles on average each day at seven bridges and two tunnels, says it is pressing ahead…

Several months later, in the Nov. 29 email reviewed by the Journal, an MTA official wrote to a senior official in Mr. Cuomo’s administration that the “initial period for the proof of concept testing at the RFK for facial recognition has been completed and failed with no faces (0%) being detected within acceptable parameters.”
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