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Study: Maryland county's red light cameras net $2.85 million, increase accidents
Filed under: Trends, Government/Legal, SafetyAnne Arundel County in Maryland has been running five red light cameras for five years, during which period they raised a fat $2.85 million in ticket...
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Irony: Red light cameras a safety impediment
Filed under: Trends, Safety, First DrivesRed light cameras are nothing more than a surreptitious tax. Oh sure, they're sold to municipalities as a safety benefit, but what else would you say if you...
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Traffic Enfarcement: What's wrong with this picture?
Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, SafetyThe script for selling one of these "automated revenue enhancement devices" to a municipality might go something like "and the best feature of the...
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Houston study lauds red light cameras despite uptick in accidents
Filed under: Government/Legal, SafetyWe all know we shouldn't mess with Texas. And Houston, Texans shouldn't mess around with statistics, because the folks running the show are going to come to any...
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REPORT: Billings, MT rushes to install red-light camera before new state law...
Filed under: Etc., Government/LegalAccording to TheNewspaper.com, the city council in Billings, Montana, voted last week to hurriedly approve new automated red-light cameras - conveniently just before...
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Abu Dhabi police to use televised shaming as tool to deter motorist scofflaws...
Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Technology, Videos, Middle East Traffic Violations aired as public shaming tool - Click above to watch video after the jump Police in Abu Dhabi take traffic...
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Report: UK moves to block Europe-wide speeding fines
Filed under: Europe, Government/Legal, Safety, UK Britain is stepping up to the man. The island nation is moving to stop a proposal that would allow member countries of the European Union to enforce...
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Baltimore issues over 2,000 red light camera tickets with dead officer's...
Filed under: Government/Legal Getting pulled over and ticketed by law enforcement makes for a bad day, and we're quite certain the feeling is amplified when the citation comes in the mail days after...
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Calgary ready to adopt sound-activated noise camera to automatically ticket...
Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Canada Police in Calgary have partnered up with a company to install the Noise Snare, a sound-activated traffic camera designed to automatically ticket loud...
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A PSA from ATS: Don't run red lights
Filed under: Etc., Safety, Videos Abiding by traffic signals is perhaps the simplest rule of the road. Any preschooler can tell you what red light means, but that doesn't stop a staggering number of...
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PSA: Some states now using school bus-mounted traffic cameras
Filed under: Government/Legal, Safety, Technology City councils and state legislatures across the country are debating and passing initiatives to put traffic cameras on school buses. Rick Gresham,...
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Watch a bus driver block escape of hit-and-run driver
Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Safety, Videos There has been plenty of debate about whether bicyclists should be able to take up a lane typically reserved for motor vehicles. While that argument...
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Santa Fe man unloads five rounds into speed enforcement vehicle
Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Videos What you see above is a video of a Santa Fe man who's had it up to here and is not going to take it anymore. The New Mexico city has a deal with Redflex to...
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In D.C. suburb, even the speed cameras have cameras
Filed under: Government/Legal, Safety Say this about the residents of Prince George's County, Maryland: they really don't like speed cameras. According to the Washington Post, disgruntled citizens have...
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noPhoto claims to offer high-tech impunity from speed cameras [w/video]
Filed under: Aftermarket, Etc., Safety, Technology Inventor Jonathan Dandrow's idea began when he first noticed that some cameras can pickup the infrared light from a television remote. It's a piece of...
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Florida to redesign license plates because traffic cameras have hard time...
Filed under: Government/Legal A lot of companies are making (or at least trying to make) money these days selling devices that improve drivers' odds of beating traffic cameras. As it turns out, though,...
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Florida cop under investigation for pedestrian hit-and-run caught on camera
Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Safety, Videos, Police/Emergency We can't say for certain, but we imagine that "don't run down pedestrians" is somewhere near the top of every police officer's...
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IIHS survey says D.C. residents like speed and red-light cameras
Filed under: Government/Legal, Safety The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) released a study this week that seems to go against what critics and the media have been reporting for years....
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Audit finds Baltimore speed cameras wrong by $2.8M [w/video]
Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Safety The debate over automatic cameras for speed and red light enforcement is already fairly intense, but a secret audit from 2012 of the traffic cameras in...
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Toucan meets traffic cam in Brazil
Filed under: Etc., Videos, Humor A toucan followed its nose up to a traffic camera mounted high above a highway in Sāo Paulo, Brazil, setting off an cute scene involving the tropical bird making an...
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