Red Signs

red-light safety cameras increased 135%.” (“Red-Light Running Dangers”) When the conversation of whether to have red light cameras, or not to have red light cameras arises, human fatalities should without a doubt be a top consideration. Especially when a study performed during 2011 by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that red light cameras had lowered

There is an urgent need for defensive driving that requires a skill set highly experienced drivers possess; yet, discover they were not able to avert an accident. The majority of society drives as if they’re driving on the bumper car track, costing an estimate of $152.0 billion; nonetheless when two vehicles collide they will not ricochet off one another (NSC, 2015, p 1). Each time you decide to operate a motor vehicle, you’ll encounter the reckless driver. This person runs stop signs or red lights. In Pennsylvania, they have installed the traffic camera, when you run a red light it takes a snap shot of your license plate and you’ll get a ticket in the mail and it still hasn’t deterred this action. When you take part in driving on the highway,

Do traffic signals make a difference when drivers are conducting their vehicles? In U.K. the roads have less signs and are smaller roads than in the United States. The United States has great amounts of traffic signals and symbols all over the road to make the driver more aware. In the U.K. accidents do occur but not that often has in the United States. In the Unites States every second there is huge amounts of accidents going on over the nation. John Staddon in his magazine article “Distracting Miss Daisy” tries to persuade that traffic control is making traffic more dangerous because we do not pay attention to the road, but to the signals.

Prioritize and expand pedestrian safety tools such as leading pedestrian intervals, bulbouts, scramble crosswalks, and no right turns on red

It was important for this artifact to target mostly young adults because they are new drivers who think the world is theirs now, but it was also important because there is a popular commonplace amongst teens where they think they’re invincible and that nothing bad could ever happen to them. This video, as heart wrenching and tear-jerking as it is, proves a point. No one is exempt from being hurt, or even killed, when it comes to distracted driving, and the four areas of Stasis Theory that I discussed persuaded me, and hopefully other audience members as well, that it can

Drivers who are aware of the abusive cameras are constantly caught up trying to avoid getting an outrageous ticket; therefore, in attempt to avoid them, drivers are unexpectedly and furiously coming to abrupt stops. In result of the urgent and sudden stop of driver A (the first one to cross the intersection), braking quickly doesn’t give driver B neither enough time or physical room to move out of the way, consequently resulting in a rear-end collision, sometimes involving more than just two drivers. The driver’s panic to evade the ticket ends up caught up in the misfortunes of an even sadder circumstance. Leading reasons for this is thanks to the intentional decrease of yellow-light length times. Studies have shown that since the installment of the cameras there has been intentional scheming to cut the period of yellow light to catch as many victims as possible. It has been verified that increasing yellow-lights to at least one second more would decrease the number of accidents by over 45%. (Maass). An extra reason for which there is

The book Seeing Red by Kathryn Erskine is set in Stony Gap, Virginia in 1972. In this book a 12 year old boy named Red Porter’s life is turned upside down by the death of his father. Due to his father’s death, his mother has no choice but to sell the old family business, and move to Ohio to live with family. But Red is determined to stay in Stony Gap, he tries to find ways to stop his mother from selling their property. Red ends up in a world of trouble by joining a local gang, in which he is forced to make a choice that could sever his relationship with his friend Thomas, a boy a year older than him that stays in Stony Gap every summer.

However, this method of traffic enforcement is not without its drawbacks. Intersection monitoring with RLCs is not acceptable because they increase rear end collisions, suffer legal uncertainties, and effective alternative methods are available.

Red-light-running camera enforcement is a relatively new technology. The cameras where implemented for use in the United States in the 1990s. The technology is available to help reduce a substantial problem that causes injuries and fatalities after a person enters a signalized intersection when displayed a red light in their traveled direction. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has defined the term "red-light-running" in Issue Brief 6 as "the act of entering, and proceeding through, a signalized intersection after the traffic signal has turned red." (Federal Highway Administration [FHWA], 2009 (6), p1) While the FHWA is a proponent of this technology, controversy has been driven by claims from opponents who cite privacy issues, maintenance concerns, and claims that the intervals for yellow/amber signals have been shortened for the sole purpose of generating funds for the states and municipalities that use the technology. Looking back at the history of the traffic signals, authorities that control them and some recent studies may allow for a better understanding of the cameras and their use today.

I’d like to start this speech today with a question. How many people have been in a vehicle whether being the driver or a passenger and drove by a stationary emergency vehicle sitting alongside the road? I can attest to driving by as well as being on the side of the road. My father, my grandfather, my uncle, and some of my ideals are alongside the road every single day. My grandfather owns a towing company, I have spent my entire life around emergency responders. So, the Move Over Slow Down Law hits very close to home. An article published by Matt Gray states, “Five firefighters per year, and one law enforcement officer per month are killed due to the violation of the Move Over Law. One tow truck driver is killed every six days due to Move Over violations,” (Gray). I am here today to persuade the audience to move over and slow down for emergency responders alongside the road as well as stranded motorists. People need to be aware of the Move Over Slow Down Law.

In the article entitled, “Dutch Town Aims Safety Measures at the Feet of ‘Smartphone Zombies’’’ Tom Everett explains how distracted walkers are becoming a problem. First, Everett discusses how many people are not being aware of their surroundings when they are on their smartphones. Everett thinks a unaware walker might even step into oncoming traffic. Then, officials in Bodegraven-Reeuwijk decide to fix this problem with some LED lights. The town put light lines in a handful of intersections around their town. These light lines are synced to the traffic light, so the light lines turn whatever color the traffic light is. So when walkers are looking down at their phone, they can see the traffic light. Although, not everyone agrees with this

Left turns on red between one-way streets are allowed in some states but not others. In some states it's normal to go 10-15 miles per hour over while in other states you will get pulled over very fast. Right and left turns on red are aloud in only certain states. There are so many law that differ between states. The basic standards such as turn signals, and driving in the right lane, stay the same from state to state. The only place in the US with left-hand driving is the US Virgin Islands. (Quora) If the Government stepped in and made all laws uniformed between states it would make the people more eager to travel. Having to learn the laws of each state when your traveling across states is a handful and should not be expected. The laws are almost identical for automobiles under most conditions. There is a general variation between the east and the west for free right turns. This is where you are turning right, after stopping, at red signal light. In the east this is permitted IF you have a sign that says that you can, otherwise you wait for the green. In the west the opposite is true. If there is no signage that tells you to not do it (no turn on red), then it's

MYTH 1: “A driver does not need to use the turning signal if they are in the designated turning lane.”

It must be noted that cars are dangerous vehicles which can cause fatal damage. Individuals responsible for a vehicle are expected to be more alert than pedestrians walking down the street or crossing the road, this is known as “destructive disparity”. This

The right-of-way for South Carolina emergency response vehicles is a law that should be followed by all South Carolina citizens. However, some citizens ignore or do not realize that by law they need to pull to the right side of the road when an emergency response vehicle is coming towards them.The deaths due to emergency responders responding to a call could decrease if citizens would move to the right. Possible deaths could occur in the back of an emergency vehicle or outside of them while at the scene of a medical crisis. The individual could be in really bad condition and any time delay could be due to people not moving to the right. Therefore, a wreck could occur still, and the emergency responders could get hurt, or the person in the wreck could be at risk of death. Deaths outside of the emergency vehicles are a high risk due to the size of the truck, and the time it takes just for the emergency trucks to come to a complete stop. Many people just ignore the law and think that the emergency responders only “run code” just so they