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cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5292633

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/calliope_kekule on 2025-03-01 05:53:17+00:00.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Interestingly, some lights are set up to deliberately slow down speeders. If you are above the speed limit, they turn red, just to slow things back down. Unfortunately, most of the people involved never put cause and effect together.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

What annoys me is the road to work in the morning actually seems to do the opposite. It’s a 35 or 40mph road, but if you do 40 you’re not gonna make it through without stopping. But if you do 50-60? No stops.

Once again though people don’t pick up on this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

how would that even work, if there's no indication that driving too fast was the reason for the red light?

do these actually include some sort of screen that tells the driver they were too fast and that's why the light turned red?

I'd imagine that this "feature" would only result in more frustration, and thus more speeding, instead of less.