[IncPen]

If you rear end someone you're following too closely for safety, period. Sure, we almost all do it, at least sometimes, but that's still a fact.

True enough.

The problem with that is that these cameras have been shown to have been mounted on lights where the yellow-time is reduced, rigging them against the driver.

And frankly, if I'm approaching an intersection and the light begins to change, my decision about whether to stop is based both on cross-traffic and how close the driver is behind me. If I slam on the brakes and am rear-ended, tossed into the intersection and T-boned, am I any less dead? All to avoid a ticket from meddling big-brother?

This isn't about safety. It's about screwing you down and making you comply, and if you so much as flinch, they're going to take it out of your wallet

[longtermmemmory]

I think this is one of those situations where they WANT you to not comply.

Compliance does not equal revenue.

[-YYZ-]

OH, I agree. OTOH, what are the chances you're going to get rear-ended hard enough to punt you all the way out into the intersection to get t-boned, assuming you have a firm foot on the brakes? If you're already stopped and they slam into you full speed, well then that's not likely the fault of the red light cameras, is it?