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Originally Posted by Jorn
Los Angles abandoned red-light cameras, they achieved the opposite of their goal: better safety.
The contracts cities have with the red light camera manufactures calls for a specific amount of tickets per intersection to pay for it. To achieve this goal the lights are tweaked in such a way that they are assured red light violations will happen; the thing they wanted to avoid in the first place.
And the numbers showed that more accidents happened on intersections with red-light cameras.
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If the intent were truly to increase safety, then they would lengthen the time of the yellow light, and delay the green. That would allow vehicles to clear the intersection, and not worry about being hit in the rear.
Instead, they shorten the yellow light time to catch more people, and get more money.