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Quote by: tivodan1116  Except that the evidence shows they aren't great. There have been some fantastic articles by Car and Driver lately in which they have cited scientific studies proving that accidents at red-light-camera intersections increase after the cameras are installed.
Conversely, they have found that the best way to make intersections safer is to increase the yellow time to on the order of 5-6 seconds. This is logical: There will always be a very small number of people who run lights for idiotic reasons, and no camera or anything else will stop them. The vast majority of drivers would never intentionally run a red light, and so increasing the warning they have that a red is coming allows them to abide by the law as they are trying to do.
All the articles are available online, just go to their site and search "red-light cameras". |
You realize that doesn't make sense?
And even if accidents to increase then thats just an increase in accidents. If the timing of the lights is left the same then just taking a photo from behind DOES not cause accidents. How can it?
The only accidents causes might be from altering the timing between yellow and red in which case thats clearly a problem being caused to increase revenue.