ANY DRIVERS INSIST YELLOW
LIGHTS ARE TIME SORRY, AREN'T
TIMED RIGHT RATHER.
ENGINEERS CALCULATE THE LENGTH
OF YELLOW LIGHTS AND IF IT'S
LONG ENOUGH TO KEEP DRIVERS
SAFE.
WE ALL KNOW THE RULES OF THE
ROAD WHERE A GREEN MIGHT LIKE
THIS MEANS GO BUT FOR MANY
MOTORISTS A YELLOW LIGHT LIKE
THIS MEANS GO EVEN FASTER!
BUT A YELLOW LIGHT COULD ALSO
GET YOU A TICKET WHICH MEANS IT
BECOMES THE SUPERSTAR OF
TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT.
YOU THINK YELLOW LIGHTS ARE
TIMED LONG ENOUGH TO GO
THROUGH?
NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT.
YELLOW LIGHTS ARE BASED ON
MATHEMATICAL CALCULATIONS.
SAY TRAFFIC ENGINEER KEVIN
LACEY OVERSEES MORE THAN 9000
AND SEE D.O.T, TRAFFIC SIGNALS
IN THE STATE
YOU ADD YELLOW THERE.
DRIVERS HAVE TO MAKE A PANIC
STOP OR HIT THE GAS AND RACED
THROUGH THE INTERSECTION.
WHEN IT COMES TO VEHICLES
FRACTIONS OF A SECOND
FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF
YEARS THIS OREGON MAN HAS BEEN
FIGHTING WITH THE INSTITUTE OF
TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERS.
THAT THE GROUP THAT SETS
TRAFFIC LIGHT AND IT'S.
HE CLAIMED YELLOW LIGHTS IN HIS
DATE WERE MISTIMED SO THAT
TRAINING DRIVERS DID NOT GET
ENOUGH TIME BEFORE THE LIGHT
WENT.
THE INSTITUTE SAID HE WAS
RIGHT.
THEIR ENGINEERS WOULD STUDY THE
TRAINING SITUATION YELLOW
LIGHTS.