[Porsche-O-Phile]

The camera doesn't do a damn thing for safety. If someone is going to stupidly/inattentively run a red light, they're going to do it with or without the cameras there.

As a general rule, if you don't count "one thousand and one, one thousand and two, one thousand and three" before looking both ways and THEN going when your light turns green, you're begging to get hit anyway (defensive driving 101 here). Not that I'm advocating that people run the red, but the reality is that 99% of the people out there are going to try and "push" a yellow - cameras or not. The state (or more correctly, a private company CONTRACTED by the state) has simply figured out a way to make $$$ off the behavior. It won't change the behavior one damn bit. It's like taxing breathing. People are going to do it anyway.

I hate/distrust those things so much I'll simply sit there if I'm turning on red. If the people behind me honk or get P.O.-ed or whatever, I don't effin' care. I'm not risking a ticket by some automated camera for making a LEGAL right turn on red and having some FOR-PROFIT "reviewer" misinterpret what I was doing.

These things are purely and 100% about revenue.

If they wanted to devise a technological solution to enhance SAFETY, they'd have the lights connected to retractable bollards or gates that physically limit movement in one direction or the other. Yes, these things exist and I'm willing to bet they don't cost appreciably more than the cameras, poles, monitoring equipment, etc. do. The only difference is one makes someone $$$, the other doesn't.