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This may or may not be true. In one of the areas near us, they installed red light cameras and had short yellows. You'd be on a 55mph road and get a 2-3 secon
by tomohawk 7y ago
This may or may not be true. In one of the areas near us, they installed red light cameras and had short yellows. You'd be on a 55mph road and get a 2-3 second yellow. Slamming on the brakes or running the red were the 2 options. With a 4 second yellow (which is actually state law), you can come to a normal stop. You could fight your ticket in court, but you had to prove the yellow was short. The state highway department had equipment you could use to time the light to prove your case. Time consuming, but doable if you didn't have a job or were retired. If you did that, you would get off, but they would still not change the light. Pretty ridiculous.
- Gibbon1 7y agoI think California changed the law, so it's legal to enter on the yellow. If it changes to red doesn't matter. However you can't block the box either. That was specifically to prevent muni's from shortening the yellow to generate revenue.
- bjourne 7y agoBut do you have to drive at the posted limit? Even if the yellow time was 4 seconds, 55 mph (90 kmh) gives you almost no margin of error.
- Dylan16807 7y agoSuggesting that the speed limit is "driving too fast :)" in good weather is ridiculous. If there is a problem, it is completely on the yellow light.
- bjourne 7y agoThen perhaps, if drivers are unwilling to consider obstacles on the road, the speed limit should be lowered.
- Dylan16807 7y agoWe could lower the speed limit in front of every intersection, or we could use light timings that fit the designed speed limit of the road. One of these is really stupid, and one isn't.
- userbinator 7y agobut you had to prove the yellow was short. That sounds like something a dashcam would be able to easily show.