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Originally Posted by Sliver
A dashcam may very well have helped. Yes, that's an easy thought experiment. They didn't exist 20 years ago, mind you.
If you don't have a dashcam and a cop tickets you then you have nothing. I get that you can't see that somehow and I get that you can't acknowledge the exact wording is yellow = stop and it's 100% up to the subjective interpretation of a cop to make that call even though he's in a different vehicle with different angles and we're talking maybe a second or less of possible reaction time considering the light hasn't even turned red, but honestly, I don't need to convince you. I've lived it. Did you enter the intersection while the light was yellow? Yes. Well, that's illegal, go pay your fine.
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The bolded applies to basically anything though. If a psychotic cop gives you a ticket for driving on the wrong side of the road when you were driving on the right side, you'd probably lose in court if your testimony is your only proof to the contrary. That doesn't make it illegal to drive on the right side of the road.
A lot of rules in the Traffic Safety Act are laid out where an action is prohibited, except in certain circumstances. So for instance, honking your horn is illegal except in certain situations. It's possible that somewhere, some unlucky guy legitimately honked at another driver and got a ticket for it, but that doesn't mean it's therefore illegal to honk your horn.