[Mgs] Was Attn californians, now "black plate cars"

[Simon Matthews]

In California, the yellow lights must be on for a minimum time --
determined according to the speed limit. Also, speed limits cannot be
set arbitrarily low.

Recently, in a city near me, someone who had received a red-light
ticket, timed the lights and found that the yellow time was too short.
The city had to refund many tickets. Of course, the city denied that
this had been deliberate.

Regards.


On 11/3/07, David Breneman <david_breneman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Richard Ewald <richard.ewald at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > *This caused lines like you cannot believe at the DMV.  The DMV
> > learned
> > their lesson, and never did a wholesale plate exchange again.
> >
>
> Here in Washington all license tabs were due at the first of
> the year, and there were massive lines (I remember standing
> in such a line with my father in the 60s).  Then in the 70s
> they started basing the renewal on the month in which you
> bought your car.  But we still have to get new plates every
> few years, probably so the retro-reflective surface will be
> nice and targetable by laser speed traps.  Now we're even
> starting to see a few parasitic red-light cameras - we've all
> read what a revenue shakedown scam those are!  "Yeah, we'll
> just reduce the yellow light from 8 seconds to 2 seconds!"
>
>
>
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