Anybody remember the Simpsons with Mensa or whatever,
where they run the town and they replaced all the
green light with yellow ones because studies showed
people drive faster through yellow lights ... hahaha
... oh man, we was just laughing ...

Cheers

--- Shawn Wilton <shawn@BLACK9.NET> wrote: >
Seriously, timing VARIES HUGELY depending on where
> you're at with regard
> to lights.  Where I live we have long yellows so you
> have plenty of time
> to get through and not worry about hitting someone,
> or violating this or
> that.  Also gives traffic a chance to come to a
> steady stop as people
> aren't slamming on their brakes when a yellow hits.
> Very nice.  But I
> went 150 miles south couple weeks back to visit my
> old man and the
> yellows were so short that I must have run 3 reds in
> one day (not full
> reds, just in the middle of the intersection when
> the red hit).  Took me
> a couple days to adjust to the timing.  Just
> something to consider.
>
>
> Shawn Wilton
> Junior in CpE
> MicroBiologist
>
> Phone: (503) 881-2707
> Email: shawn@black9.net
>
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>
>
> David VanHorn wrote:
> > At 09:43 PM 6/15/2004 -0400, Herbert Graf wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>Totally serious.  In fact I think my county
> (Ventura County) has
> >>>the highest
> >>>number of these 'red light cameras' installed.
> >>>Studies have shown that lengthening the time a
> light turns
> >>>yellow, plus the
> >>>time when one direction turns red before the
> other direction turns green
> >>>actually does more to save lives than these red
> light cameras, but where's
> >>>the money in that?
> >>
> >>       I've never understood this "complaining"
> about red light cameras, photo
> >>radar, etc. People scream "it's a cash cow" or
> "it's just another tax".
> >>Well, to the first I respond: Of COURSE it's a
> cash cow, but if you do the
> >>right thing all the time you'll never pay it (why
> are people complaining
> >>about paying because THEY RAN A RED LIGHT. Why ARE
> they running red
> >>lights????).
> >
> >
> > Because the next thing that happens, is that they
> monkey with the yellow timing, making it shorter and
> shorter, so as to make more money.
> >
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