One of the most annoying of traffic annoyances

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• Bee

  2016-08-28 06:03:46 edited 2016-08-28 06:17:42

  I just saw someone get snapped by a red light cam on a green light while driving home tonight.  Fun times.

  
  

  I looked at the red light cam Q&A on the county courthouse site, and one of the questions is:

  
  

  Q: Are red light cameras just another way for the government to make money?

  A: No.  All traffic fines from red light cameras go into the Red Light Camera Program.

  
  

  Which is...kinda worse, because instead of a perverse incentive to write too many tickets (that at least go to the state who can do useful things with it for the common good), it just gets funneled right to Xerox or Redflex as profit.
• Tachyon

  2016-08-28 13:38:09

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  tbf this could mean there's pedestrians crossing in front of the car in front, but you can't see them, couldn't it?  or even a dog in the road or something like that
  
  i know this is such a European thing to say, but i feel like it'd be a lot less confusing if red just meant stop
  
• Princess Alice

  2016-08-28 18:34:07

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Tachyon said:

  tbf this could mean there's pedestrians crossing in front of the car in front, but you can't see them, couldn't it?  or even a dog in the road or something like that

  That's a possibility, yes, but I generally assume that if someone's not signalling right they intend to go straight ahead.

  
  

  As for red light cameras: my city suspended their program a couple years back when the state legislature passed a measure requiring a police officer to be present at a camera for its tickets to be considered valid.