Red light sensors?
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From: S'mee on 7 Jul 2010 02:49 On Jul 6, 6:51 pm, BryanUT <nestl...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > I go to work pretty early, so I am stuck at an intersection, waiting, > waiting, waiting. So I make a right on red, uturn and another right on > red. Is that beating the system? > > I guess I could have just run the red light. Damn sensors not "seeing" > motorcycles. No wonder cages hit us. > > Buses are your friend, they can signal the light to change, I wonder > how hard that is to hack. Hmmm, my friend works for the bus > company..... Some good advice given. I just give it 2 full cycles and if the traffic is lite...I ride on. Then again I can be a bit of a scoflaw about things like sensors that don't work or stupid laws that nobody enforces.
From: Mark Olson on 7 Jul 2010 06:17 Rob Kleinschmidt wrote: > In a smaller upscale town, I've also had some success > calling and talking to the person responsible for traffic > light problems and getting the sensitivity of a particular > light adjusted. I did this at an intersection near me, the county traffic signal engineer arranged to meet me there and adjusted the sensor so it would detect my SV650.
From: Vito on 7 Jul 2010 07:16 BryanUT wrote: >> I go to work pretty early, so I am stuck at an intersection, waiting, >> waiting, waiting. So I make a right on red, uturn and another right >> on red. Is that beating the system? >> >> I guess I could have just run the red light. Damn sensors not >> "seeing" motorcycles. No wonder cages hit us. >> Complain to whoever maintains the lights in Deseret. Sensitivity is adjustable.
From: tomorrow on 7 Jul 2010 10:54 On Jul 6, 8:51 pm, BryanUT <nestl...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > I guess I could have just run the red light. Damn sensors not "seeing" > motorcycles. No wonder cages hit us. In Virginia, after you wait through one full cycle of the light, you may legally proceed on red. (Not that I would enjoy explaining it to a cop, if stopped!)
From: T.J. Higgins on 7 Jul 2010 11:06
In article <6ce30284-376c-4f03-9bf4-d5d49271201d(a)b35g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, tomorrow(a)erols.com wrote: >On Jul 6, 8:51�pm, BryanUT <nestl...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > >> I guess I could have just run the red light. Damn sensors not "seeing" >> motorcycles. No wonder cages hit us. > >In Virginia, after you wait through one full cycle of the light, you >may legally proceed on red. (Not that I would enjoy explaining it to >a cop, if stopped!) So carry a copy of the relevant section of the vehicle code... -- TJH tjhiggin.at.hiwaay.dot.net |