Red light sensors?
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From: tomorrow on 7 Jul 2010 14:29 On Jul 7, 12:57 pm, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: > On 7/7/2010 10:54 AM, tomor...(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!) > > Tricky, tricky. If the light's just stuck on red then there's no "one > full cycle" to wait through. Be better if they required you to wait > three minutes or something. One full cycle of the lights that *are* changing. Pretty simple, to my simple way of thinking.
From: Bob Myers on 7 Jul 2010 14:40 LSMFT wrote: > I don't wait any more. I know which lights won't change for my bike > so I just go when it's clear. > I have noticed that some that did not change are now changing for my > bike. Have they adjusted the sensitivity? It's been known to happen. Anyone who has a light in their locale which is notorious for not detecting motorsickles should bring said light to the attention of your local traffic-control folks in the city gummint. Many of them WILL get out and at least try to fix the situation. There are standards for this sort of thing which are at least intended to ensure that a few hundred pounds of metal in the loop is enough to trigger the system. Bob M.
From: Futility Man on 7 Jul 2010 15:40 On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 11:28:57 -0700 (PDT), "tomorrow(a)erols.com" <tomorrowaterolsdotcom(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >I'm old, respectable ....and half-right. -- Futility Man
From: J. Clarke on 7 Jul 2010 15:48 On 7/7/2010 2:29 PM, tomorrow(a)erols.com wrote: > On Jul 7, 12:57 pm, "J. Clarke"<jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: >> On 7/7/2010 10:54 AM, tomor...(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!) >> >> Tricky, tricky. If the light's just stuck on red then there's no "one >> full cycle" to wait through. Be better if they required you to wait >> three minutes or something. > > One full cycle of the lights that *are* changing. Pretty simple, to > my simple way of thinking. If it's one of these big complicated intersections with a dozen lights or a big city intersection where you can see the lights a block down the street, that's fine, but how about in small towns where there may only be one light in sight?
From: tomorrow on 7 Jul 2010 16:13
On Jul 7, 3:40 pm, Futility Man <n...(a)futile.org> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 11:28:57 -0700 (PDT), "tomor...(a)erols.com" > > <tomorrowaterolsdot...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >I'm old, respectable > > ...and half-right. Too true, I'm afraid. |