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At traffic lights, there are stop lines. Vehicles are intended to stop short of these lines.
The proposal addresses three problems; drivers waiting at a red light either (a) creeping forward, (b) in countries with have a Red/Red-Amber/Green sequence, drivers starting to move off on Red-Amber, or (c)
drivers "cutting the corner" , imperriling other road uses waiting for their turn.
The stop line on the road has a linear pressure sensor embedded in it. When the lights are red, and the sensor detects an increase in pressure, a loud horn sounds and a spotlight illuminates the area guarded by the stop line. This draws attention to the offender.
If a vehicle already has its wheels on the stop line when the lights turn red, then there's no noise - stopping with your wheels on the line is permissible.
There's always the little-old-lady enforcement system
http://www.youtube....watch?v=6bBVJAFrN0U
[FlyingToaster, Jun 26 2009]
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My god Jeeves, any more of this talk and I am rolling up the double glazed partition that should naturally seperate us...Now put a foot on it, I have to hand in these expense claims for my twenty-thirteenth home's damp proofing before "Old Browny" gets into the office... |
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Sensible. I'm with you until the last paragraph - wouldn't this tend to encourage drivers to stop with wheels on the stop line so as to be able to "start to move" prematurely without penalty? |
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It seems the logic could be changed to perform the same function - i.e. operate as you describe, but if wheels are on the top line when the light turns red, any decrease in pressure would also activate the discouragement. |
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Reasonable - any significant change in pressure triggers the system. |
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Another way of further taking away people's ability to use their own judgement and initiative and impose unthinking rules & laws wherever unnecessary. |
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Like when the police specifically choose 4-way stop junctions where drivers can see for hundreds of metres in all directions. Something like 90% of drivers see that there is nothing that could possibly come from any direction (vehicle or pedestrian),and therefore slow down but don't actually - and entirely unnecessarily - achieve full removal of forward momentum before carrying on with their journey. |
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All so they can generate maximum 'traffic fines' (aka revenue) and claim to be tough on dangerous' driving |
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Just by the way ... anyone know the world record for waiting at a red light that was actually broken? 24 hours, by a woman in Queensland |
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