Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!amix!undrground!seanp From: undrground!seanp@amix.commodore.com (Sean Petty) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Traffic signals Message-ID: Date: 27 Apr 91 05:23:49 GMT References: <1991Apr25.201250.10438@gjetor.geac.COM> Lines: 25 adeboer@gjetor.geac.COM (Anthony DeBoer) writes: > A third advantage is that it confirms that the emergency-vehicle-detector was > tripped, and makes it a bit more obvious if some bonehead :^) is tripping it > himself with a strobe in order to get to work faster. If people see the whit > lights go on and nothing unusual goes through the intersection, they're going > to start to wonder. Several people have made mention to the possibility of tripping these traffic lights with ordinary Radio Shack strobe lights going at about 16Hz... Could some authoritive source please tell me if this is really possible? You mean to tell me that all I need to do is buy a $40 strobe light and put it on my dash board to get all greens? C'mon! It HAS to be harder than that!! Sean ------- Sean Petty |INTERNET: undrground!seanp@amix.commodore.com | UUCP: uunet!cbmvax!amix!undrground!seanp "In order to make anything from | ICBM: 39.58.1' North 75.61.1' West scratch, you must first create | 50/50: seanp@undrground.UUCP the universe." - Carl Sagan | seanp@amix.commodore.com