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Submission + - Red light cameras raise crash risk, cost (courierpostonline.com) 1

concealment writes: "A pilot program for red-light cameras in New Jersey appears to be changing drivers’ behavior, state officials said Monday, noting an overall decline in traffic citations and right-angle crashes.

The Department of Transportation also said, however, that rear-end crashes have risen by 20 percent and total crashes are up by 0.9 percent at intersections where cameras have operated for at least a year."

Comment Re:So, what? A month, six months, a year? (Score 1) 93

Actually, the company had some customers that would only accept US-made product, after being burned by the quality coming out of our Chinese plant. In other cases Chinese product was shipped to the US plant for rework before going to the end user. I don't intend to generalize, but I spent close to two months working with our Chinese manufacturing engineers and found a real lack of analytical thinking and common-sense problem solving, along with a great reluctance to make vendors solve their quality issues.

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