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Cameras At Traffic Lights - Decoys?


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Posted 02 December 2010 - 10:01 AM

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Can someone volunteer to sneak up a traffic camera, open the back, and see if the box is truly empty? I am, like, dying to know! smile_big.gif

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Posted 02 December 2010 - 10:33 AM

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QUOTE (cbsteh @ Dec 2 2010, 10:01 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Can someone volunteer to sneak up a traffic camera, open the back, and see if the box is truly empty? I am, like, dying to know! smile_big.gif

you just volunteered...... smile_wink.gif smile_big.gif smile_big.gif

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Posted 02 December 2010 - 10:36 AM

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QUOTE (vr2turbo @ Dec 2 2010, 10:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
you just volunteered...... smile_wink.gif smile_big.gif smile_big.gif


No, ler. Hoping for someone bolder and more samseng...hehehe

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Posted 02 December 2010 - 02:22 PM

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QUOTE (cbsteh @ Dec 2 2010, 10:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
No, ler. Hoping for someone bolder and more samseng...hehehe

who ar?........ smile_big.gif smile_big.gif

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Posted 02 December 2010 - 04:35 PM

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QUOTE (vr2turbo @ Nov 30 2010, 03:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Not only don't run red lights, be careful running green lights too, because of the other party running red lights..... smile_disapprove.gif smile_disapprove.gif


true lo.. i almost bang a motorcyclist this morning... he run red light...
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 05:44 PM

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QUOTE (nofear1979 @ Dec 2 2010, 04:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
true lo.. i almost bang a motorcyclist this morning... he run red light...

Aiyoh, that one have been happening long ago.......... smile_shock.gif

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Posted 02 December 2010 - 08:54 PM

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QUOTE (vr2turbo @ Dec 2 2010, 05:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Aiyoh, that one have been happening long ago.......... smile_shock.gif


at one time i was first in queue at red light...another motorist ran the red light in opposite direction, narrowly missed a car turning out at green, but slipped and fell...he and his machine skidded and ram my front..######CCB sterb324.gif sterb324.gif sterb324.gif

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Posted 02 December 2010 - 10:05 PM

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QUOTE (Lechuck @ Dec 2 2010, 08:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
at one time i was first in queue at red light...another motorist ran the red light in opposite direction, narrowly missed a car turning out at green, but slipped and fell...he and his machine skidded and ram my front..######CCB sterb324.gif sterb324.gif sterb324.gif


year 1997, my father's car, wira aeroback.. kena like what u say.. new car... baru out 2 weeks, masuk kilang do full claim.. lol smile_thumbup.gif
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 11:09 PM

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This article increases my belief that some, if not most, red light traffic cameras in Malaysia are fakes/decoys. Perhaps the authorities rotate the decoy and real ones from time to time to keep us on our toes.

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August 29, 2001

Traffic Safety Experts Say City’s Dummy Red-Light Camera Plan is Smart Stuff


Transportation Alternatives (T.A.), a traffic safety watchdog group, strongly supports the New York City Department of Transportation’s plan to install 200 decoy red-light cameras around the city. Currently, the city has 50 red light cameras and no dummy cameras in place.

The use of decoy cameras to multiply the effectiveness of real red-light cameras is standard practice in cities with photo-enforcement programs. Toronto’s red-light program deploys three dummy cameras for every ticket issuing camera. Ten real cameras are rotated among 40 intersections, so drivers never know which are the real cameras and which ones are not. In London, signs prominently mark the areas where traffic is monitored by photo-radar.

The City has been using red-light cameras for automated enforcement since 1994. Efforts to expand the red-light camera program from it’s current 50 to 100 was thwarted earlier this summer by state lawmakers. Studies of New York City’s red-light camera program showed a dramatic decrease in crashes as a result of the cameras usage—as much as 70% at some locations.

Ellen Cavanagh, campaign director for Transportation Alternatives, stated:

Even more valuable than the individual tickets is the threat of being ticketed that the dummy cameras represent. For every person who receives a ticket for a red-light violation, there are others who didn’t take that risk that light knowing they might get caught. We hope that when the city does get additional red light cameras it also installs a proportional number of dummy cameras along with them. It’s an excellent way to broaden the scope of one of the DOT’s most effective traffic safety programs.

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Posted 03 December 2010 - 04:39 PM

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Singapore if got camera whether real or fake, they drive slowly, here no one cares.......... smile_blackeye.gif