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Red light cameras are a real problem. Since tickets are incentivized, some of the more greedy agencies have shortened the yellow light timing, leading to more tickets and also more accidents.


I literally can't understand how some agencies can just go ahead and "shorten the yellow light timing". In EU the length of the yellow light is mandated by law and a small town in a middle of nowhere can do nothing to change it. There are a few exceptions - like in Portugal light changing from red directly to green, but no one anywhere has any power to change the length of the yellow light timing. It's mind boggling because EU consists of different countries which could very well make their own rules but decided to standardize them so all EU citizens can drive all over EU and expect the same rules everywhere. Yet US is a single country and can't have consistent driving rules??


There is a difference between having rules and the governments actually following them...




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