Re: Want a speed camera, create a school zone.

"Brent" <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:hcs2gi$j31$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Because of the lack of due process in traffic camera tickets, obeying
the law is not really much protection. At times camera operators just
ticket people anyway or they rig the deck. (short yellows, hidden signs,
etc and so forth)


At least in my general area, any time the deck is rigged (usually shorter than 3 second yellow light) it results in bad public press for both the contractor of the lights and the city. It also results in hundreds of those tickets being dismissed.

The only other way they can rig the deck is to shorten the red light grace period. As I understand it, some of the cameras that can record a full 12 seconds of video have a red light grace period of 0.1 second instead of 0.5 seconds. It's still easily beaten by slowing a bit on green and preparing to stop on yellow, though some here might object to that as sloth driving.

In general, non-aggressive acceleration and legal speed driving will almost always beat any red light camera where the deck has not been rigged.

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