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Stumbled upon this in a Twitter thread about Tesla's car insurance pricing based on recorded behavior, and now I'm upset. #WellThisFuckingSucks

California City Finds Optimum Balance Between Safety And Profit, Trims Yellow Light Times To Produce Spike In Citations

If your city has red light cameras installed, the length of time that yellow lights stay yellow largely depends on how much revenue the cameras are generating, rather than how much safer the inters…
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anubis2814
anubis2814  
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Damn I first thought this was about curbing light pollution, I have to pay a $100 fine for the ass end of my car being in the intersection for 1/10th of a second. There are ways to make camera traps fair and equitable. We do not do that.
HernanLG
HernanLG  
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Could this motivatie people to swit to public transport? Because then it would be a good thing!
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@HernanLG No, like the article explains, changing the orange timing has no effect on behavior, only on citations. Meaning that once the change is enacted and the number of automatic citations spikes/drops shortly after, it doesn't evolve further, and simply plateaus.

I would hypothesize the delay between the infraction and the bill sent by mail means that there's no hope of changing the behavior since the punishment is too far in time from the behavior.

If it doesn't change the orange light behavior, it certainly won't push people to entirely change their transport mode, especially in the US where the public transport offer is almost inexistant outside of dense metropolises.
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