Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:58:29 -0800
Reply-To: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Thanks RE: Photo ticket at stop lights
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Think of the cameras as law enforcement vending machines. I have seen people
pulled over for speeding- never for a yellow light.
Signals are timed to delay the crosstraffic green light any way, so the real
danger is running the red light when it was red before you enter the
intersection.
But the yellow lights switch to red at different intervals, which is why so
many of these cases are dimissed. A more accurate way of photo radar would
be the picture taken by the side. But this is'nt done because of vehicles
different lenghts.You would have to use multiple cameras.
And in the case of trucks- it's far safer to go thru the intersection than
it is to slam on the brakes and jacknife.
In other words, the camera isn't able to take into account the lenght of the
vehicle, and the length of the lens effects the reading also.
The camera is set to photo the license plate as soon as the light turns red.
And since the yellow light can be adjusted to turn off earlier than say at
another intersection the next block over, if you have lived there a long
time, you know the light's timing. When the put in the photo radar, they
alter the timing.
When were the courts ever jammed with yellow light runners?
The majority of police calls are domestic violence (couples fighting over
the photo-radar tickets they got in the Diesel Vanagon!!)
Robert
1982 Westfalia
>Sean Wrote:
>
>If I felt I was guilty I would not have made this post.
>Sean
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Steven Fish [mailto:fish@salzburg.co.at]
> > Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:13 AM
> > To: Sean Garrett; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Thanks RE: Photo ticket at stop lights
> >
> >
> >Robert Steven Fish Wrote:
I have one simple question for you.....
> >
> > Did you go through the yellow (or red) light?
> >
> > If the answer is yes, then pay your ticket, learn your
> > lesson, admit that
> > you made a mistake, stop trying to pretend that the entire
> > government is
> > corrupt, and spying on you, and out to cash in on your
> > innocent and harmless
> > actions.
> >
> > There is a reason why they install those cameras which take
> > photos of the
> > cars who run yellow (or red). The reason is that many
> > innocent men, women,
> > and children are killed each year by folks who are in a
> > hurry, and speed up
> > at the yellow. There is a trend towards ever increasingly
> > aggresive driving
> > and road rage in the States... while the crime rate is also
> > so high, that
> > hte police force is busy 24-7 catching the rapists, murders,
> > and high school
> > kids killing their teachers. There simply are not enough
> > resources for a 30
> > minute personal ticket giving ceremony for running a light.
> >
> > Here we have radar boxes both in the sities and on the
> > autobahns and when
> > you get a ticket, you pay it, and people do not really freak.
> > We are not
> > living in a totalitarian, nor "Orwellian" society here
> > either... it's just
> > that Europeans tend to be a tad more responsible for their
> > actions than
> > perhaps residents of some other countries.
> >
> > Now, having said all that.... if you did not run the yellow,
> > then fight it.
> >
> > Good Luck with whichever you choose to do!
> >
> > RSF
> >
> > PS. Most lights these days are controlled by traffic, and
> > weight or other
> > sensors... so your timing it by using the clock may not do much good.
> >
> > IMPORTANT!!! In order to reply to me, you must have the word "FISH"
> > somewhere in the subject line of the email. Otherwise it
> > goes directly in
> > the trash.
> >
> > <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{
> >
> > Robert S. Fish
> > Salzburg, Austria
> > 1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
> > 1987 Golf Cabriolet
> > 1991 Golf
> >
> >
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