Today I misjudged a red light turning left. The intersection had a camera and does anyone here know if they usually catch people running reds on left turns?

 

depends what kind of camera. post a picture of it and i'll be able to tell you. i work with that sort of stuff.

 

depends what kind of camera. post a picture of it and i'll be able to tell you. i work with that sort of stuff.

 

Really? I've always wondered what you do for a living. You've got my attention

 

Currently I work for Purdue, doing a post-doc here. I do research in the area of traffic signals,traffic flow, and lots of vehicle detection. We have done a ton of research in the last year regarding video detection, the use of cameras as opposed to loops in the pavement. The majority of cameras are either PTZs for surveillance (Traffic Ops Center) or detection units.

http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever...aNextrans.html

The linkis a picture of me and my boss (I am not wearing the tie) at one of our data collection test sites. There are lots of camera in the background.

 

I think he'll find out for sure in 3-4 days.......

 

touche....

 

Dang 3-4 days? That fast? Yikes. Oh boy. I don't have a picture, but its the little camera thats on top of the pole that holds the traffic light (green yellow red) if that helps, probably not = /

 

I seem to be post wh*ring this thread.

Did it look like this?

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No, it looks smaller than that. I noticed on that intersection it didn't have that "red light violation...." sign that others do with more visible cameras. Could this camera just be to see how traffic flow is and not red light camera? Somebody was telling me that they have some cameras which can be watched online to see how traffic flow is doing.