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Originally Posted by Grog
It is the same. you are required to stop. Can you honestly tell me you have time to check both crosswalks, the on coming traffic, left turners, side traffic both ways, and double check for motorcycles in your illegal rolling stop..
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Sometimes. And that's the point. The automated systems don't make a judgement call. People, OTOH, are quite capable of assessing the situation.
there are MILLIONS of 'California stops' daily, w/o incident. Some are a queue of slow roll and go cars weaving thru a congested intersection. If automated ticketers would be installed, those intersections would have horrible intersection efficiencies.
Here's one for you, ever see heavy traffic merge together even though one lane has a Yield sign? ...that Yield sign is being disregarded by those pushing their way into heavy traffic. Should we set up automated systems there? --of course not.
Traffic flows well as people figure out reasonable actions. Automated systems are a gotcha game for profit.
And, NO, I have never been nabbed by one of these systems.