Yep, exactly. My city went the other way -- instead of red light cameras, we increased the time on the yellow light a little bit, and introduced a small delay

Yep, exactly. My city went the other way -- instead of red light cameras, we increased the time on the yellow light a little bit, and introduced a small delay between when one signal turns red and the next signal turns green. So we got less accidents, and less crazy panic stops on yellow lights. Win, win.