Official: people running red lights should be dragged from their cars and flogged.

[conjur]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: SpiderX
I almost got T-boned by some guy running a red light a few months ago. The guy even had the gall to look at me like I was in the wrong!

Same here. I was on a six lane road - 3 lanes east bound, 3 lanes southbound and a median in between. I was in the furthest right lane with cars in both the lanes to my left. We were sitting at a red light. Opposite direction light goes yellow, cars in the intersection finish up their turns. Our light goes green, and I start to make my way through the intersection. Next thing I see is a big piece of construction equipment with a 15 foot tree log mounted on the front of it like a harpoon start plowing it's way through the intersection from the left. WTF?!?!?! The driver of the thing looks at me like I'm the one at fault here! :|

Wouldn't that be an intersection?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

How about those people who run dead traffic lights at midnight? Asstyrants. :|

- M4H

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
How about those people who run dead traffic lights at midnight? Asstyrants. :|

- M4H

I think they prefer the term "AssDespot" or "AssDuce". 😛

 

[vi edit]

Wouldn't that be an intersection?

Well yes, but I guess putting in the six lanes was significant at the time because I was so far over I couldn't see the thing to the left of me before moving through. If I had been in the furthest left lane, I would have seen it coming, but being a couple more lanes over I was oblivious to it's presence.

 

[Hoober]

Originally posted by: Fausto1

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
How about those people who run dead traffic lights at midnight? Asstyrants. :|

- M4H

I think they prefer the term "AssDespot" or "AssDuce". 😛

Is that duce or deuce?

On a side note, I got in an accident yesterday because the woman in front of me stopped in a merge lane. Well, I guess it wasn't her fault, it was mine for not paying attention, but still it's a merge lane.... you're supposed to merge, not stop.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Hoober

Originally posted by: Fausto1

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
How about those people who run dead traffic lights at midnight? Asstyrants. :|

- M4H

I think they prefer the term "AssDespot" or "AssDuce". 😛

Is that duce or deuce?

On a side note, I got in an accident yesterday because the woman in front of me stopped in a merge lane. Well, I guess it wasn't her fault, it was mine for not paying attention, but still it's a merge lane.... you're supposed to merge, not stop.

It's pronounced "doo-chay".......as in Il Duce (Mussolini). 😉

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
We have red light cameras here in Wilmington NC. A lot of other citys in NC either have them or are getting them.

They are great for 2 reasons. One it reduces red light runners almost over night, and two even if you do get one if will not raise your insurance. It is like a parking ticket, just more.

Unless they changed the law, running a red light in NC is 3 points on your driving record. Maybe that only applies if a cop actually pulls you over and gives you a ticket.

We're getting a couple in Raleigh also. I think one is up and running already.

No only if you get a ticket from a cop can if affect you points/insurance. The ticket you get from a red light camera is like a parking ticket, just a fine. Here in wilmington it has reduced accidents at the intersections with the cameras like 60-80% at all of them.

And I have made many rights on red at these intersections and never have been given a ticket, so they work pretty good. And they only give a ticket if you run a red. If you make it over the lines while yellow = no ticket.

 

[vi edit]

Actually...now that I think about it...I ran a red light last night 😱

I was driving home on the interstate and took an exit to a little podunk town to refuel. The overpass that I had to turn onto was under construction and had those temperary stoplights put up. It was a "T" intersection. All three ways were red. And stayed red. FOR 4 MINUTES. At that point I hadn't seen a single vehicle (twas 10:00 at night in rural Iowa) so I cautiously took a left turn on a red light.

Where I fueled up I could see the stoplight. In the entire time that it took me to pump 16 gallons I never saw the light turn green.

Am I bad?

 

[Hoober]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Actually...now that I think about it...I ran a red light last night 😱

I was driving home on the interstate and took an exit to a little podunk town to refuel. The overpass that I had to turn onto was under construction and had those temperary stoplights put up. It was a "T" intersection. All three ways were red. And stayed red. FOR 4 MINUTES. At that point I hadn't seen a single vehicle (twas 10:00 at night in rural Iowa) so I cautiously took a left turn on a red light.

Where I fueled up I could see the stoplight. In the entire time that it took me to pump 16 gallons I never saw the light turn green.

Am I bad?

You should be flogged, shot, and then burned.

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Actually...now that I think about it...I ran a red light last night 😱

I was driving home on the interstate and took an exit to a little podunk town to refuel. The overpass that I had to turn onto was under construction and had those temperary stoplights put up. It was a "T" intersection. All three ways were red. And stayed red. FOR 4 MINUTES. At that point I hadn't seen a single vehicle (twas 10:00 at night in rural Iowa) so I cautiously took a left turn on a red light.

Where I fueled up I could see the stoplight. In the entire time that it took me to pump 16 gallons I never saw the light turn green.

Am I bad?

Actually in TN they passed a law that allows motorcyles to run red light. A lot of their intersections use magnest to change the lights when it senses a car at the intersection. Bieks are so small they don't get picked up. So bikes can treat a red light like a yellow.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Hoober

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Actually...now that I think about it...I ran a red light last night 😱

I was driving home on the interstate and took an exit to a little podunk town to refuel. The overpass that I had to turn onto was under construction and had those temperary stoplights put up. It was a "T" intersection. All three ways were red. And stayed red. FOR 4 MINUTES. At that point I hadn't seen a single vehicle (twas 10:00 at night in rural Iowa) so I cautiously took a left turn on a red light.

Where I fueled up I could see the stoplight. In the entire time that it took me to pump 16 gallons I never saw the light turn green.

Am I bad?

You should be flogged, shot, and then burned.

Then peed on. </Postal 2>

- M4H

 

[Broohaha]

next time take him out wiht your bazooka

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Originally posted by: Fausto1
I was really wishing I had a paintball gun with me so I could mark the guy as a complete idiot; thereby allowing others to give him a wide berth for their own safety.

I actually had a similar idea a couple years ago except it's more like an electronic marking system. Ok, it gets kinda "out there", but it seemed logical as I was more than half-asleep 🙂

The premise is that all cars are equipped with a marking system (and can be marked). Somebody drives poorly near you, you can "mark" them. Now I'm sure that people are going to mark you because of their mistakes, not knowing that you've done nothing wrong, but that doesn't need to be a problem. After somebody has a bunch of marks, it's proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that the person has made some true mistakes, and their car begins to glow pink or something. Until they get a ticket or save small children from a burning building or the like then the aura fades or goes away. (Told ya it was "out there")

Another one of my thought-rambles while half-asleep: A "tivo" for cars. Put an array of sensors, low-quality cameras and instruments in all cars. Then you've got sensors along the side of the road, at stoplights, etc.

at a stoplight: Light is turning red and it sends a signal to your car, your car determines whether or not you can stop in time. You run it? You automatically pay. I don't have a problem with cameras at stop lights, so long as they are dead-on accurate.

Accidents, collisions. The car records things like velocity, distance from lines, curbs and other vehicles as well as a continuous loop of the last 10-20 seconds of video from different perspectives around the car. The combination of data from several different vehicles gives a ton more proof as to what caused an incident.

Freeway driving: Car keeps track of adaptive safe following distance given the condition of the road and speed of traffic. If there's an accident up ahead, the local side-of-the-road transmitters immediately broadcast a warning and help divert traffic.

That's enough of my brilliant ideas for now. Don't want my future millions stolen. 😉


Ok, back to half-asleep stupor for me.

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: Fausto1
I was really wishing I had a paintball gun with me so I could mark the guy as a complete idiot; thereby allowing others to give him a wide berth for their own safety.

heh...reminds me of that bit Gallagher had. Give everyone a dart gun and when you see someone do something stupid like that you shoot a dart at their car. After they get a few, they get pulled over and ticketed for being an a**hole!

Damnit, Gallagher! That bastard is already taking my ideas 😉

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Rogue
I'm willing to bet he's the same kind of fvck that speeds and then fights the ticket to get out of it saying that the cop that gave it to him is an a$$hole.

probably also the kind of guy who doesnt heed police cars, ambulances and fire trucks and blocks them from getting through traffic as they need to during an emergency

alot of that here, ambulance flashing and people keep driving....ambulance and firetruck drivers should have free fire rights with a shotgun at anyone who cuts them off when the lights/sirens are going, 2 or 3 people get shot for cutting them off and i doubt as many people would continue to do it...stupid drivers! gah!

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: Rogue
I'm willing to bet he's the same kind of fvck that speeds and then fights the ticket to get out of it saying that the cop that gave it to him is an a$$hole.

probably also the kind of guy who doesnt heed police cars, ambulances and fire trucks and blocks them from getting through traffic as they need to during an emergency

alot of that here, ambulance flashing and people keep driving....ambulance and firetruck drivers should have free fire rights with a shotgun at anyone who cuts them off when the lights/sirens are going, 2 or 3 people get shot for cutting them off and i doubt as many people would continue to do it...stupid drivers! gah!

I doubt he would've even heard any of the above thanks to the ever-so-important cell phone convo he was having as he ran the light.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth

Originally posted by: Fausto1
So I'm on my way to work this morning and waiting to hang a right at a light near Emory U. The light for the cross-traffic turns yellow, so I start looking to my left to make sure no one's coming and see a lone Volvo sedan. As it gets a bit closer, I can see the driver is jabbering away on a cell phone and apparently trying to make up his mind if he can make the light or not. He finally guns it and blows through the intersection.....and through a light that has been red for a solid 3 seconds. :|

WTF is wrong with people that they can't be bothered to wait for one light cycle? This was right across the street from a university so there are bikes and pedestrians all over the place. One jogger started to cross the street when he got a walk signal and had to immediately jump back on the curb when the f*ckwit in the Volvo ran the red. Are you really in such a hurry that you'd risk the lives of your fellow humans? Selfish asshole.

</rant>

After seeing a dump truck loaded with rock run a red light at 60 mph, I always wait a couple of seconds after the light changes before I go through an intersection.

After having a semi loaded full of stuff run a red light at 60 mph and having it slam into my aunts car, leaving her in a wheel chair for the rest of her life, I always wait a couple of seconds after the light changes before I go through an intersection.

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