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That is the dumbest argument I ever heard.
How does it encourage dangerous driving when it actively punishes dangerous driving?
The fact it is a revenue source has more to do with people not following the law than the system.
If there were no dangerous drivers, it wouldn't be a revenue source and thus those cameras wouldn't need to exist in the first place.
If anything, asking people to break traffic cameras is encouraging dangerous driving.
The problem is cities reducing the timings, because it'll go from green to red without sufficient time to safely stop. The whole purpose of the yellow light is to give you wiggle room to either stop or get through the intersection before the next cycle. If a sudden red forces you to slam on the breaks hard enough to risk being rear ended (or worse in icy conditions risk sliding into the intersection)
Plus if the timings are tight enough someone trying to stop/complete their menuever might find themselves in the intersection with opposing traffic now trying to enter
Traffic cameras are just trying to put out a greese fire by throwing water on it. If you don't know better it seems like a good idea, but in reality it just makes the problem worse
Because the people who habitually drive badly find out pretty quickly how to game the system and not face the consequences, and/or consider the fines part of the cost of driving how they want. Fines don't stop bad behavior, they just put a price on it.
Before you dismiss me by saying I just want to get away with speeding, consider that it's easy to fight a ticket from a camera- in most cases, you just don't respond and it goes away, though of course that varies with jurisdiction. If I wanted to get away with dangerous driving, I'd be all for replacing cops with cameras.
I have some experience with this.