Friday, April 22, 2011

Red Light Cams

     They're all over in Montgomery, and Birmingham is considering installing them too.

     Red Light Cameras....with speed cameras to follow.

     They take pictures of cars that run red lights or speeding and mail the owners a ticket. Most of the money goes to the companies that provide the equipment, but the city gets a slice too.



    Now an interesting experiment in California calls into question just how fair the red light cameras are, when a 7/10 of a second adjustment in the length of the yellow signal can cause a 62% drop in the tickets the machines generate.

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