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Originally Posted by budder
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I rarely had a problem stopping for red lights (there was one time in Boulder driving an old Discovery where I was pretty curious about whether I'd stop or not, but that is the only incident I can recall), but short yellows definitely feel unsafe; when I have to threshold brake because of traffic engineers' ineptitude I get pretty mad. I can definitely see how it would be difficult for people who are driving clumsy SUVs, poorly-tyred cars or commercial vehicles to stop.
I don't mind the idea of red-light cameras in areas where lights are properly-timed though. There definitely are plenty of asshats who seem to think, "Oh, it only just turned red-- I'll just go real quick because I don't want to sit in this turn lane for another five minutes."