Traffic signals could be screwing you over because even stoplights can't do math
Those stoplight cameras that catch us committing the tiniest Traffic infractions might **t be as accurate as we've been led to believe, according to a very persistent Oregon resident whose nearly four-year battle against the system was recently profiled by Wired. It's **t the cameras themselves, it's the math controlling the timing of stoplight signals that's the alleged root of the problem, forcing drivers to make a split-second decision when caught in a yellow light.*
Mats Järlström started his fight against Traffic signals after his wife Laurie was slapped with a ticket for turning right through a red stoplight back in 2013. The Swedish-born former electrical engineer claims the timing system that controls the signals is fundamentally flawed and unfair, **t giving drivers e**ugh time to react to the changing yellow light. He contends the flaw should make the penalty given to his wife — and therefore, similar tickets given to thousands of other drivers across the country — null and void. * Read more...
05-01-2017, 10:06 PM
Traffic signals could be screwing you over because even stoplights can't do math
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