{"id":5237,"date":"2010-04-10T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2010-04-10T03:00:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T08:00:32","slug":"lights-camera-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5237","title":{"rendered":"Lights!  Camera!  Ticket!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc-2.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=12265823\">Math tutor uses numbers to fight red light camera ticket<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When his wife received a ticket in the mail recently, the first thing she said was the yellow light was too short.<\/p>\n<p>So Mike, who works with numbers all the time as a math tutor, put it to the test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said, \u2018If it&#8217;s really short, then you got short-changed and you got a ticket illegally,'&#8221; said Mogil.<\/p>\n<p>The speed limit on Collier Boulevard, where she was cited, is 45 mph. According to county guidelines, the yellow light should be 4.5 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Mogil said he tested it 15 times with an average of only 3.8 seconds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good for him, showing with empirical data that the light was wrong.  Evidence wins.  Maybe it&#8217;s just me, though, but the story seems to be hinting that anyone who is not a math teacher\/tutor, or perhaps a similarly-accomplished professional, would be incapable of performing this kind of analysis.  I really hope that timing a light with a stopwatch and averaging the results is within the capabilities of anyone licensed to drive a car.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mogil says he&#8217;s already checked 65 intersections and found that only seven yellow lights are long enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have read of areas where red-light cameras were installed, and the contractor shortened the length of the yellow light in order to jack up revenue \u2014 they get a share of the ticket proceeds.  This is either negligence or fraud. I hope they find out which.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math tutor uses numbers to fight red light camera ticket When his wife received a ticket in the mail recently, the first thing she said was the yellow light was too short. So Mike, who works with numbers all the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5237\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}