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- From: jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Stopping at Signs (was Re: Pushbuttons at crossings...)
- Message-ID: <v798olg@sgi.sgi.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:30:57 GMT
- References: <1jiv8n$gk6@agate.berkeley.edu> <28514@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1993Jan22.215009.12676@ntmtv>
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- In article <1993Jan22.215009.12676@ntmtv>, adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt) writes:
- > In article <jyc.727721777@Leland>, jyc@leo.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis) writes:
- > > I think the fine for running a red light should be raised to
- > > several hundred dollars, and then communities should consider the
- > > bozos who run lights as a sort of "cash cow" to be milked by stationing
- > > policemen to hand out tickets to every one of them. It would be like
- > > shooting fish in a barrel.
- >
- > Better yet, do what I've seen used on some intersections in Germany:
- > Install, as part of the signal-light and auto-sensing system, pole-
- > mounted photo units that photograph any auto running a red light.
- > This should help improve revenue and/or compliance and at least that
- > way the nice policeman can do something a little more useful than
- > watching an intersection... This is a great application photo-radar
- > type technology. As with photo-radar, the registered owner gets the
- > ticket in the mail.
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- Why not just install sensors in cars so the car can turn the driver in?
- I find the big-brotherism with the photo-radar to be scary. One of
- Europe's worse ideas.
-
- jeremy
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