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Consider yellow to mean "stop", and the length of it becomes irrelevant and the roads become a little bit safer.
by rcfox 14y ago
Consider yellow to mean "stop", and the length of it becomes irrelevant and the roads become a little bit safer.
- noonespecial 14y agoFor each given stop light, speed limit, and vehicle configuration, there is a rubicon that is crossed where it is impossible to stop before entering the intersection. Set up your camera and creep the yellow light time down past this limit and profits just start rolling in.
- VLM 14y agoExactly. There's uncountable number of stories easily google-able across the country where intersections with red light cameras magically coincidentally have their yellow light interval dropped by 1/4 to 1/3 vs intersections without red light cameras, to increase revenue.
- hysterix 14y agoYep. And then the red light cameras start magically getting bullet holes in them. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/dec/12/police-man-shot-camera-after-it-shot-him/ http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/dec/12/police-man-shot-cam... http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/shoot_out_the_red_lights_2_tra.html http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/shoot_out_the_red_l...
- brokenparser 14y agoNo. Yellow tells you to go faster.
- carlob 14y agoa fellow Italian driver?
- pseut 14y agoYou should also glance in your rear-view mirror to verify that the car behind you follows the same rule before you commit to stopping. Simple rules about traffic safety usually need a little tweaking IRL...