[geeks] Stuff fo' sale

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 14:43 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo said:

> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 14:23, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm sure each "speeder cam" is really a source of revenue,
> 
> Here in the USA, there are many documented cases where the duration of
> the "yellow" traffic light was actually shortened at those intersections
> having a stoplight camera, in order to increase revenue.
> 
> Of course a shorter yellow in this case means that people etiher brake
> harder or they speed up to avoid being caught out on the yellow.  
> 
> Which increases the chance of an accident.

That's what happened locally.  Speedcams went into place, and the
accident rate changed.

Simple accidents really did go down, but severe-to-fatal accidents
increased, and there were a lot of false positives.

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