New traffic cameras in Nassau

[ovi8]

Originally Posted by I_Love_LI_but

Definitely nothing to do with safety.

They will probably cause more accidents when the person at the light which turns yellow suddenly decides to slam on the brakes and the person behind is tailgating and assuming the driver will go through ...

I had gotten a red light ticket via cop one week (admittedly in too much of a rush to get to a game on time). A few weeks later on a different road it was raining and I spotted a cop waiting for his light on the cross street. My light turned yellow and I said "gdamnit" followed by jamming on the brakes which didn't work - proceeded to pulse-brake the last bit of speed just to try to stop in time. The lady behind me hit me. There's a case of police presence not helping. I would've barely beat the red but I wasn't going to chance ticket #2 so soon. I actually saved that lady a ticket probably. Idiot's husband said to the same cop I was confused and didn't know whether to go or not (the pulse-braking). Hey, idiot, you would've ran the light with him there.

[ovi8]

^ if you read closely I said I probably would've beaten the red, and not caused any accident. This means my speed was fine unless I needed to stop short, in the rain, which I did because they were there. I didn't want to chance another ticket and also as a result caused an accident.

I'm not saying cops are useless. I'm giving an example of how they can cause accidents too.

[Jetties]

Originally Posted by hotkarl

I think they should install machine guns at red lights.
When you run the light, you get filled fulla lead...

As long as they tell everyone upfront I would vote for that. The incentive to not break the law would make it work (probably).