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Hitting the brakes and getting rear ended is barely even a crash compared to T-boning someone or plowing over pedestrians

• joecool1029 1y ago
  I didn't say that. I said they'd panic and throw their vehicle into reverse. Cars/trucks can take the hit, motorcycles/bicycles not so much.
  • rcpt 1y ago
    Huge skepticism that bicycles and motorcycles were getting backed into in any appreciable quantities.
    • potato3732842 1y ago
      How many people you willing to put in the hospital to prevent people from technically running reds on the yellow-red transition?
      • rcpt 1y ago
        > in 2023, 1,086 people were killed in crashes that involved red light running https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/red-light-running https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/red-light-running So let's use that as an upper bound. How many people were killed by these backups you're talking about?
    • joecool1029 1y ago
      If not that then rear-ended, here's the state's report on how red light cameras increased accidents: https://dot.nj.gov/transportation/about/publicat/lmreports/pdf/2012rlrfinalreport.pdf https://dot.nj.gov/transportation/about/publicat/lmreports/p...