Gadgetory

about 540 cities and towns around the u.s. currently have cameras on their traffic signals red-light cameras not everyone's crazy about how a machine gives you a ticket how you can test that kind of ticket or how much of your fine stays local if you pay it but the IIHS says large cities with established camera programs have seen big drops in fatal red light running accidents as much as 24% and a 17% drop in all fatal crashes at those intersections all via three layers of awareness word gets out around town that cameras have been installed scions go up warning drivers that they're approaching a camera intersection and should you blow a light a ticket goes out to your mailbox what of our integrated awareness could be coming alleys developed a dashboard display showing the state of the light ahead and how long it will be that way vehicle to vehicle technologies on the way enabling cars to signal each other if they're about to intersect either by a smart intersections as several car makers have been developing as part of the crash avoidance metrics partnership or vehicle to vehicle technology that Ford's been showing in action and while these technologies are all envisioned first as passive warnings it's not a huge leap to have cars take over the braking based on intersection conditions much as they already do based on follow distance today clearly better technology than today's signals and rather primitive cameras is coming soon in the meantime the intersection is definitely a place where it pays to double check