KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS 8. Safe Roads Kerala Recognition where enforcement alone has stalled. Human beings respond surprisingly well to being seen doing the right thing. And Kerala already runs AI cameras that only punish. Saji has driven an autorickshaw in Kozhikode for twenty-two years without a single accident. He wears his helmet on the scooter home, he slows at the school junction without being told, he has taught three younger drivers to do the same. In twenty-two years no one has ever once acknowledged any of it. The only letters he receives from the state are fines. The cameras that watch him see only what he does wrong, never the two decades he has done right. This chapter is about the half of road safety Kerala has not yet built: the half that notices Saji. Enforcement suppresses the worst driving; it can never reward the best. And a state that only ever punishes its careful drivers should not be surprised that careful driving never becomes a thing men compete over. Kerala already operates one half of an AI road-safety system, and at considerable cost. Under the Safe Kerala project, 726 AI cameras went live on 20 April 126