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

MagicMarker wrote: »

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

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

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

getz

giftgrub wrote: »

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

giftgrub wrote: »

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.

Myrddin

Micilin Muc wrote: »

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".

getz

getz wrote: »

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

There are many sets of lights in Dublin that have sensors that appear not to be used!

Where the sensors do work, it's a simple trick to slow down for the first one and 9 times out of 10 the lights will switch for you, the ones on Airton Rd for example.

Temporary lights at road works often have a sensor that you can flash to switch.

whadabouchasir

Wasn't this on an episode of CSI?

Kipperhell

whadabouchasir wrote: »

Wasn't this on an episode of CSI?

No doubt the hacks on that show love urban legends to make up silly stories. One of these days the people they catch will realise if they don't confess they could probably beat the charges;) They may even wonder why lab technicians are questioning them.

whadabouchasir

Kipperhell wrote: »

No doubt the hacks on that show love urban legends to make up silly stories.

My favourite one is when someone turned a mobile phone into a 300 volt taser by drilling a few holes in the transistor.I'd love to know how they got a 300 volt taser out of a 3.7 volt battery.

Wazdakka

whadabouchasir wrote: »

My favourite one is when someone turned a mobile phone into a 300 volt taser by drilling a few holes in the transistor.I'd love to know how they got a 300 volt taser out of a 3.7 volt battery.

One Of These would work nicely.

KevR

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

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

I'm going to tell a few people I know that I read you can get lights to change to green by flashing quickly at them and that I tried it an it worked.

See who will actually go out and try it for themselves. Should be funny.

getz

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

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

that web site is for the USA only .ireland and the UK have different traffic lights.

Elessar

MagicMarker wrote: »

You do realise emergency vehicles can go through red lights?

Actually they can't, but cops turn a blind eye. Sure they do it themselves.

JuliusCaesar

ShooterSF wrote: »

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".

This is known as superstitious behaviour, if you're interested.

EMS vehicles can go through red lights IF it's safe to do so. Which is why they slow down at junctions. No much point in an ambulance getting wrecked by a lorry on the way to A&E with a serioulsy ill patient. (the Simpsons?)

genericguy

stovelid wrote: »

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

i've got a similar skill, but it only works with biscuits.

Theta

I thought that all of the lights in ireland used the ground based induction loops to changes the lights and thats why a previous poster on a bike couldnt change them.

irlmarc

irlmarc wrote: »

I thought that all of the lights in ireland used the ground based induction loops to changes the lights and thats why a previous poster on a bike couldnt change them.

They do, it's just that the LA are clueless about programming them so just have the system set up on dumb timers! :mad:

KevR

irlmarc wrote: »

I thought that all of the lights in ireland used the ground based induction loops to changes the lights and thats why a previous poster on a bike couldnt change them.

Some have censors mounted on top of the poles. Not sure of the exact technical name for these sensors though.

KevR

KevR wrote: »

Some have censors mounted on top of the poles.

Are the lights changing considered porn these days.