They are watching everything...
A lot of those "camera's" are really ezpass sensors (to do traffic volume and speed calculations at their most benign iteration) they are what updates the "travel time" InfoDOT program signs all along the highways. But when has any government surveillance program not expanded to more nefarious purposes.
The "Police State" of America monitors you here is another way...
#NYDOT tracks drivers using RFID in E-ZPass. A reminder that anything that tracks can be used in unanticipated ways:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmi...ead-all-over-new-york-not-just-at-toll-booths
A hacktivist, made his ez-pass signal every time he drove by an EzPass reader, and most are not anywhere near any toll roads/bridges
https://hackaday.com/2013/09/16/modified-e-zpass-detects-reads-far-from-toll-booths/
https://www.popsci.com/article/diy/ezpass-hack-covert-scanning/
So with the 1970's Bank Secrecy Act, that made your $10,000 cash deposit to a bank no longer a secret, so that the IRS could make sure you were paying your fair share of taxes.... Florida is now requiring people who pay cash and don't use the EzPass like systems to fill out Cash Transaction Reports.
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/39/3904.asp
The MTA PD still refuse to identify what the towers are monitoring, civil rights privacy orgs believe they are facial recognition scanning towers.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/09/27/mysterious-metal-towers The good news is that all those drivers driving around by themselves with masks on are probably evading this surveillance.