
The Army veteran and attorney built City Detect around a stubborn municipal truth: cities cannot fix what they cannot see. His next test is making computer vision useful without letting the machine make the human decisions.
A University of Alabama economics experiment strapped cameras to trash trucks to map urban decay. Five years and $15 million later, City Detect is doing the work of 40 code officers with one vehicle - and cities are starting to fix blight before it spreads.