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If the claim that standard 5 second yellow lights were shortened to 3 seconds for traffic cameras is true, Suffolk county officials should be ashamed. This is s
by crwalker 8y ago
If the claim that standard 5 second yellow lights were shortened to 3 seconds for traffic cameras is true, Suffolk county officials should be ashamed. This is simply extortion.
- theonemind 8y agoIf true, they should be ashamed and THEN go to prison. That kills people.
- gambiting 8y agoFyi - light goes to yellow for 3 seconds before going to red in all of EU and people don't die because of it. I'd say 5 seconds in US is unusually long.
- detaro 8y agoI'd guess consistency is more important than the absolute value.
- crwalker 8y agoThe problem isn't the specific number, it's the intent behind changing the number and the decades of training the public on a different number.
- ska 8y agoI suspect the problem is more expectation than absolute value.
- tomjakubowski 8y agoReally? Doesn't it vary depending on, say, road speed or visibility? It does in California.
- glogla 8y agoIt does in EU also. There's a EU-wide lower-bound of 3 seconds, I guess gp mixed it up.
- pkaye 8y agoIt depends on size of intersection and speed limits. Are you saying all intersections in the EU are 3s?
- egorfine 8y agoI cannot remember seeing 5s yellow light ever (and I drove across almost all the EU). 5s yellow would certainly caught my attention in a "WTF is this" style as 5s is not just long, it's actually enormous and kinda defeats the purpose.
- ajmurmann 8y agoThey shouldn't only be ashamed they should be charged personally with manslaughter. It's a big problem that both companies and government institutions always absorb resistibility from individuals and thus prevent proper responsibility for the privileged. The best outcome I could see here is the city ending up having to pay to families of accident victims that were caused by shorter lights. It should be the individuals that made the decision who pay and not the tax payer.