Originally Posted by Chris L.
Last night coiming home from work I got photographed....I was fully stopped & never entered the intersection ...but I think the flashes were activated because of the speed I was still traveling in the detection zone relative to the timing of the red light....hopefully the people that review the 2 pictures will see that I never went thru the red light??? Car stops on a dime (OEM brakes).
Yeah, there's an intersection near me that must have the camera set up correctly; about 1/3 of the time it flashes on me. I haven't gotten a ticket in the mail though.
Maybe I stopped just barely over the line, who knows. Regardless, they shouldn't have them that sensitive, because they do have people reviewing the pics, and they have to sort through a lot more pictures = more labor required, which lowers their revenue (somewhat
).
The little municipality that has these near me now has all new cop cars, etc., when they didn't have them before.
They made over $1 million in the last 2 years on 4 speed/red-light cameras, and the city population is only 12k. The company that sets up the cameras gets over 60% of the proceeds