The Power to Make Traffic Lights turn green....

[giftgrub]

A Mate told me that if its dark and you flash your heads as you approach a red light it will turn to green

He claims that theres a little sensor on the light that used for emergency service vehicles, you know with the blue flashing light an-all?

Anyway I was driving home the other night and gave it a go...It worked!!! At least i think it worked....

[Kintarō Hattori]

False:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/strobe.asp

[giftgrub]

G**...I'm convinced it worked

Maybe I have secret mind powers....

[mikemac]

On another note there are certain junctions where a motorbike is unable to start the cycle.
So if you pull up at a red light on your own in the middle of the night you could be there for hours. You'd break the light if it was safe

I've been there.
And a minute a car stops behind me the lights go green

[Micilin Muc]

If I approach a set of traffic lights on my push bike, and if there's no vehicle stopped already, I look for the sensor markings on the ground (usually four large squares in a grid) and I'll ride my bike over the four squares. It always changes to green within seconds, unless it has just turned red.

[Captain Darling]

I hope you didnt believe the other story your mate told you.

That third testicle is never gonna drop buddy.

[MagicMarker]

You do realise emergency vehicles can go through red lights?

[stovelid]

Can't you just do it with your mind like I do?

[Micilin Muc]

Originally Posted by MagicMarker

You do realise emergency vehicles can go through red lights?

A green light for an approaching emergency vehicle will sometimes ease the congestion at the junction.

[Long Onion]

I normally find that the most effective way of making traffic lights change colour is to pull up and refuse to move until they have changed to a colour you find acceptable.

Works every time

P.s. your mate was just trying to pick up hookers

[Ikky Poo2]

Ifr you accelerate quickly while wearing a blindforld they turn green EVERY time. Frightens the s*it out of them.

[getz]

Originally Posted by giftgrub

A Mate told me that if its dark and you flash your heads as you approach a red light it will turn to green

He claims that theres a little sensor on the light that used for emergency service vehicles, you know with the blue flashing light an-all?

Anyway I was driving home the other night and gave it a go...It worked!!! At least i think it worked....

dont take any notice of the insulting posters ,i worked on mobile security at night in the UK,and i found that the old type traffic lights that havent any road triggers,are under the control of sensors late at night when in a hurry and nothing else on the road i would flash my lights well before a junction so the lights would change before i got there

[Wazdakka]

Originally Posted by giftgrub

A Mate told me that if its dark and you flash your heads as you approach a red light it will turn to green

He claims that theres a little sensor on the light that used for emergency service vehicles, you know with the blue flashing light an-all?

Anyway I was driving home the other night and gave it a go...It worked!!! At least i think it worked....

And our survey says....
No.


In some of the cities around the world (None in Ireland) where they have a system for emergency service triggered traffic lights they use more complicated systems than a lumen's sensor.

Some use Infra-red transmitters and recievers, Other's fancy gps thingys.

But the commonality is that they dont make the lights go green..
They make them go red at every set on the intersection they are approaching.

This means that everybody is stopped and it's alot safer for them to go through.
Also it stops people doing exactly what you were trying to do...

Even if you can figure out the way to trigger the change,
all you get is a face full of red lights.

[EnterNow]

Originally Posted by Micilin Muc

If I approach a set of traffic lights on my push bike, and if there's no vehicle stopped already, I look for the sensor markings on the ground (usually four large squares in a grid) and I'll ride my bike over the four squares. It always changes to green within seconds, unless it has just turned red.

Or you could always (a)start hammering the cross button, (b)barrell up onto the path and barge your way through, or (c) just ignore the red light altogether. Wernt you listening at all in cycle school??

[ShooterSF]

There have been some fascinating studies of how people see patterns rather than coincidence in life. Did anyone see that Derren Brown special (which itself copied an experiment) where a group of people were left items in a room and told to score points but given no other instructions. They then tried different things and then repeated the ones that they did when the points went up when in reality the points went up due to the actions of goldfish in a separate room and nothing the people were doing effected it. Afterwords they were sure certain patterns worked to get points even ignoring the times they didn't "work".