I believe where I live the cameras were ruled unconstitutional. They were not getting a picture of the driver and sending a ticket to the car owner was not deemed fair. I know there are still some cameras around but they stopped working over a decade ago.

More people here are seeing a yellow as "floor it" and a red as "okay if you make it into the intersection no more than 2 seconds late, preferably doing 20 over the speed limit because you floored it". I had one car totaled about 4 years ago when I saw a yellow and braked and the SUV behind me accelerated. The driver said, "Oh, I haven't done that [rear-ended somebody] in several years!".

 

The Ideal:
Red means Stop.
Yellow Means Warning.
Green means Go.

Unfortunately too many people have evolved to believe:

Green means GO.
Yellow means GO.
1st second or Two of Red means GO.

2-3 seconds into a Red Light...Stop.

 

ur town needs a red light camera. make a fortune.

 

After being rear ended for stopping in time for a red light on my Harley two years ago, I find I run through more yellow lights than I used to as I'm afraid of being rear-ended at an intersection again. If I'm going to stop or brake on a yellow, I now check the rear view mirror first to make sure there's nobody behind my expecting me to run the light.

 

I try to anticipate the red light by traffic conditions, density, and the state of the light when it first comes into my view. Yellow may get run, red only if I'm right under it.

A friend was rear ended while on a motorcycle and carrying a passenger. The driver of the car was drunk and with a woman not his wife. My friend wound up under the car in front of him, caught between the road and the drive shaft. His passenger flew up in the air, landed on his feet, and was running up hill before he was stopped by a witness. Must have looked like a Hollywood stunt. Outside of a few scrapes, no one was injured. Go figure.

 

You can be surprised by a yellow light, but not by a Red; STOP for the red. Those jackasses who are "cashing in" on the expected delay between the start of a red, and start of an opposed green should lose their licenses before another driver and/or passengers are ended by the offender's stupidity.

 

The real problem is the people who don't wait three or four seconds to start moving when the light turns green!

 

A red light means get out of the car and slap the person in the car behind you right in the face, DAVE.