Lost your licence for speeding? Build your own racetrack

[danny_galaga]

sweet!

[JMB]

That is pretty awesome! Too bad my Powerball tickets didn't win.

[wp34]

That is pretty awesome! Too bad my Powerball tickets didn't win.

+1

Now I have a new thing to dream about when I buy a lottery ticket. 

Speeding cameras are starting to pop up in Iowa like rabbits all in the name of "$afety" of course.   

[lilshawn]

That is pretty awesome! Too bad my Powerball tickets didn't win.

+1

Now I have a new thing to dream about when I buy a lottery ticket. 

Speeding cameras are starting to pop up in Iowa like rabbits all in the name of "$afety" of course.   

we have cameras here.

"Redlight" - get you if you go through on red.

"speed on green" - get you if you are over the speed limit...by how much is not known.

"roadside" - portable units disguised as transformer boxes/garbage cans. Dirty dirty buggers.

"speedtrap" - a NONDESCRIPT vehicle with a camera mounted inside, parks on the side of the road (often in an area right after the speed lowers)and gets you...sometimes with another vehicle behind blocking the cop pretending to be broken down.

the problem with ALL of these units??...the offender CONTINUES TO OFFEND. somebody doesn't pull them over and tell them, "HEY! don't do that!" they continue down the road. There is no deterrent. You know what else? if they do notice they've been caught by a camera...more often than not, they start driving EVEN FASTER! They figure since they are already paying for a ticket they may as well.

they say things like "red light cameras make the roads safer" i say bullplop. I've almost rear-ended people on several ocassions who see the light change to yellow and JAM on the brakes because they think if they go through they'll get a ticket. HOW IS THIS SAFER than them simply travelling through the still empty intersection safely on a yellow light?

we recently had about a million dollars worth of tickets thrown out because the cameras where not properly calibrated. it showed photo radar pictures of school buses going around corners at 70km/hr. I've personally been in photo radar intersections where the camera flash is just clicking away taking pictures of an empty intersection.

money grab is what it is. FIGHT THAT BS!

/rant

[wp34]

Well said lilshawn.

My town just put up "warning lights" at each intersection on the highway that leads to the high school.  These things are brilliant.  They light up about 10 seconds before the light is going to change to red.  That is a true safety feature.  You get a warning in plenty of time to start slowing down and there is no ticket involved.  Previously the light would turn yellow and you would have to decide whether it was safer to plow through the "amber" light or slam on the brakes and hope you don't get read-ended.

I was totally shocked when I saw these warning lights last week.  Most of the towns around here are scrambling to get speed and red-light cameras installed.  They don't want to miss out on any of the safety generating revenue.

[ChadTower]

Isn't the point of yellow to warn people it's about to turn red and provide enough warning?  The problem there is people acting like yellow means "speed up to make the light" instead of "slow down it's going to turn red."  All the second warning light is going to do is cause people to eventually speed up just the same.   

[wp34]

Isn't the point of yellow to warn people it's about to turn red and provide enough warning?  The problem there is people acting like yellow means "speed up to make the light" instead of "slow down it's going to turn red."  All the second warning light is going to do is cause people to eventually speed up just the same.   

You are correct but the problem (around here anyway) is the yellow comes on too quickly if you are going 45 or 55 mph.  You have to slam on your brakes to avoid running the light.  There will be idiots that will speed up (they do anyway) but I'll use it as a way to slow early.  Even the ones who speed up may likely be "running" a green light as apposed to a yellow or red without the warning.

[wp34]

We had yet another function at the high school tonight (I hate December).  On the way back I noticed one of the warning lights is placed right before the crest of a hill.  I never noticed before but you can't quite see that stop light until the last second because of the hill.  Since the warning light flashes all through the red light as well (not just on yellow) we were warned as we were coming up the slight hill that the light was going to be red.

[ChadTower]

You are correct but the problem (around here anyway) is the yellow comes on too quickly if you are going 45 or 55 mph.  You have to slam on your brakes to avoid running the light.  There will be idiots that will speed up (they do anyway) but I'll use it as a way to slow early.  Even the ones who speed up may likely be "running" a green light as apposed to a yellow or red without the warning.

They can extend the yellow time.  I wonder why they didn't just do that.

[wp34]

You are correct but the problem (around here anyway) is the yellow comes on too quickly if you are going 45 or 55 mph.  You have to slam on your brakes to avoid running the light.  There will be idiots that will speed up (they do anyway) but I'll use it as a way to slow early.  Even the ones who speed up may likely be "running" a green light as apposed to a yellow or red without the warning.

They can extend the yellow time.  I wonder why they didn't just do that.

I miss-typed in my original post.  The warning lights go off before the yellow not the red.

[Gray_Area]

They can extend the yellow time.  I wonder why they didn't just do that.

They have in places here. The answer is in different government.....but americans such as they are might need genetic rehabilitation to bolster it.... Now this can go to PnRN.

[lilshawn]

if they have an intersection that is camera controlled (IE: generates revenue). they cannot lengthen the yellow light...in fact they are encouraged to shorten it.

thing is, there is no legal length if time required for a yellow light.

normally it's about 2.5 to 3 seconds....sometimes even longer when it's a known hotspot for accidents or a multi lane roadway.

red light camera intersections are often in the 2-2.5 second range...short changing the motorist thinking they can make it.

[danny_galaga]

I for one am not condoning speeding. I just thought the track was cool (",)

If you hate 'revenue raising' speed cameras, I know the perfect way to trick 'the man' out of an easy buck- don't speed 

[Ed_McCarron]

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/nj_slams_the_breaks_on_red-lig.html

Standards say that a light should stay yellow one second for every 10 mph the road is rated at.

The company that set the cameras up for NJ (and took a percentage of the fines...) was timing them quicker -- effectively making more money.  No ulterior motive there...

[ChadTower]

Of course, in NJ, yellow actually means "accelerate and clench your teeth".

[lilshawn]

Of course, in NJ, yellow actually means "accelerate and clench your teeth".

here in edmonton, yellow means 8 more cars can get through

red means 4 more cars can get through.

[wp34]

Of course, in NJ, yellow actually means "accelerate and clench your teeth".

here in edmonton, yellow means 8 more cars can get through

red means 4 more cars can get through.

We have those people in the Midwest as well.

[ChadTower]

here in edmonton, yellow means 8 more cars can get through

red means 4 more cars can get through.

We have those people in the Midwest as well.

Damn Oilers never know when to quit!

[lilshawn]

Damn Oilers never know when to quit!

doesn't bother me none. I'm not a hockey guy. 

besides, they quit before they start, that way when they quit, it doesn't look any different.

[ed12]

lilshawn

u should say :slide-through:

xtra long light's dont u know

ed

[lilshawn]

Also, this:

http://www.brushtalk.blogspot.ca/2012/12/how-to-drive-like-edmontonian-in-10.html