Camera Shy.As a side note to your story "Installing Cameras on Stoplights stoplights npl (AUT) → luces fpl de detención stoplights npl (Aut) → signaux mpl de stop, feux mpl arrière Discourages Red-Light Runners" (September September: see month. 2000), these cameras were tried in the Dallas area, and they did reduce red-light runners. Unfortunately, the cameras had to be removed from many of the intersections, as people who ran the red lights were shielding their faces from the cameras as they entered the intersection intersection /in·ter·sec·tion/ (-sek´shun) a site at which one structure crosses another. intersection a site at which one structure crosses another. , and thus were causing accidents as their vision was obstructed ob·struct tr.v. ob·struct·ed, ob·struct·ing, ob·structs 1. To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See Synonyms at block. 2. . The cure turned out to be worse than the disease as the number of accidents actually increased in many of the intersections in which the cameras were installed. |
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