Comments on: China’s New Yellow Light Traffic Regulation Isn’t Working Very Well

By: godzilla_p.i.

godzilla_p.i. — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:12:03 +0000

its such a police state already why dont they just stick red light cameras everywhere?

By: KopyKatRetard

KopyKatRetard — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:46:31 +0000

“unless you are already in the intersection.” Um no. Go back to driver’s ed. It’s stop unless you cannot come to a halt safely. There is a significant margin in which drivers should maintain their speed or even speed up to safely pass through.

But you like to stop regardless and go screeching into the intersection, I get that KopyKat. To each his own.

By: terroir

terroir — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:01:40 +0000

Yup. Chinese drivers will brake for red lights using “rote learning”. There will be special course given by expat drivers who have life experience braking for amber lights.

By: Ander

Ander — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 08:34:56 +0000

School as punishment? That makes total sense now!

By: RhZ

RhZ — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 08:19:30 +0000

>>Accidents have already been decreased.

Come on, no one believes that. No data would even be available yet, even if you could trust the data. Which you can’t, not when it goes through the propaganda department before being released.

Why, you have pulled that right out of your rear! Didn’t it hurt doing that?

By: terroir

terroir — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 07:20:37 +0000

I usually hate Chinese comments, but that “one light” system comment rocks so hard Neil Young himself would strum three chords along with it.

Everybody knows: after some PR in which reporters will follow along cops who are shown enforcing the law, everyone will forget about this, and then the tragedy will occur that will spike public anger and then the new law will get passed and then we’ll finally get more funny comments.

By: terroir

terroir — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 07:16:09 +0000

But the shame in being forced to go back to school is so great that it may influence some people to “accept virtue as their moral”.

By: James

James — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 06:46:21 +0000

The intent of the law is to stop those who speed up into a yellow. If you maintain speed and go through it’s fine. If you slow down and go through, it’s fine. However the system is not centralized, nor uniform, so it’s actually fairly toothless as the systems to enforce it are nowhere near implementation. The big change in reality is that while you can still get away with it, if you get into an accident now, you’re more or less fully liable, whereas before you were not.

The intention is based on the fact that a lot of accidents are caused by those who try to speed through, and this law makes it a large enough risk that people are, in fact, being more cautious. Accidents have already been decreased. It’s a dumb law that could use a bunch of tweaking to make it more effective, but that costs time/money/effort. Whereas just declaring it will achieve a similar effect on its own.

Same thing as speeding and driving in the emergency lanes. Everyone’s gonna keep doing it where there are not cameras, and even where there are cameras, people do it the instant they see someone else doing it. As long as no one gets hurt in the process, actual enforcement is rare.

By: KopyKatKiller

KopyKatKiller — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 05:45:53 +0000

If a light turns yellow, that means you should stop unless you are already in the intersection. i think this is standard in most countries. What they are trying to stop people from doing is speeding up when they see a yellow light, which is illegal everywhere and a common sport here.

What really needs to happen is the institution of “graduated licensing” and the suspension of licences.

There is no reason why a driver who has been driving less than 3 years should be allowed to carry passengers or drive at night, none that I can thin k of anyway, this graduated licensing. Only 6 points for the first 3 years as well.

The fact that a license CANNOT be suspended is retarded. In China, if you lose all your points you just have to go back to driving school where you learn nothing and simply pay for your certificate or go to a police station and pay off someone to delete the infractions.First loss of points should be 30 days suspension. 2nd, 90 days, and 3rd, 12 months.