To further develop a low-power low-cost optical motion detector for use with traffic detection under dark and daylight conditions, we have developed and verified a procedure to use a Near Sensor Image Processing (NSIP) programmable 2-D optical sensor in a "1-D mode" to achieve the effect of using a cylindrical lens, thus improving the angle-of-view (AOV), the sensitivity, and usefulness of the sensor. Using an existing 256 x 256 element sensor in an innovative way, the AOV was increased from 0.4 to 21.3 in the vertical direction while also improving the sensitivity. The details of the sensor hardware architecture are described in detail and pseudo code for programming the sensor is discussed. The results were used to demonstrate the extraction of Local Extreme Points (LEPs) used for Time-To-Impact (TTI) calculations to estimate the speed of an approaching vehicle.