The New Regulations

The new regulations of the Ministry of Public Security is essentially the yellow to red, the Chinese invented the yellow light, the Chinese people and the eradication of the yellow light, it should be said, the two major events of the history of the development of world traffic lights.

    "You yellow when the green light to use, I put the yellow light when the red light with!" This should be a decision introduced the background and psychological.

    With fines for traffic management to become the city an important source of fiscal revenue, the yellow light penalties is not a simple traffic management problems, it is a financial problem.

Been called "the most serious in the history of traffic rules" apply for driving license and use of provisions "(revised edition), effective as of January 1, 2013. According to the new regulations, Chuang yellow light will be deducted 6 points. This regulation triggered strong objection.

The dispute on the rules of the yellow, the problem is not unique to China. In the United States, the yellow is also in full swing the argument being, of course, the focus is different. Americans are the focus of controversy is the time of the yellow light.

Crossroads of traffic lights system in the 21 on the end of 2006, the capital of the state of Texas, Dallas, deliberately yellow light time is set to 3.15 seconds, 3.5 seconds less than the statutory minimum. Changes in just 0.35 seconds, so that the ticket quantity increased by 110%, doubling the number of accidents at the same time with the fine revenue. Chris (Chris Blain), the Texas Department of Transportation experts criticized the Dallas City, said: "If the car is 30 miles per hour (about 48 km) the exercise of the yellow light time of less than 3.5 seconds, the driver will not be sufficient time to react with brake, inevitably running a red light if the yellow light time is extended by one second, can reduce 40% of accidents.

In comparison, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security of the yellow light new regulations clearly Bidalasi problem is much more serious, because it is actually the yellow light time is set to 0 seconds.