Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish engineer saw red

Re:Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish en... by inanutshellus on Monday October 21, 2019 @08:48AM (#21311637)

> What if an obstruction appears in the road - a pedestrian or a u-turning car? Are you just meant to plow into them?

I'm guessing you're supposed to get the robot-generated penalty, get your court date, take the day off of work, and plead your blindingly-obvious case to the court.

..... /or/ they could change to make the offense fire if you enter the intersection illegally instead of exit "illegally". :-\

Completely nutty.

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Re:Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish en... by bitexploder on Monday October 21, 2019 @09:43AM (#21312132)

Many municipalities make them non-moving violations and won’t even let you appear in court for them. It is an outright scam.

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Re:Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish en... by yaur on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:26AM (#21321107)

A friend of mine got one of these and if you read carefully they aren't really even "tickets" though they try hard to obscure that. AFAICT the only real recourse the company that issues these "violations" has if you don't pay is to pursue them through ordinary collections, which I suspect would be difficult if you were to dispute the "debt."

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