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From: dhk@hp-pcd.UUCP (dhk)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Smart Traffic Lights?
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 15:03:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 15:03:00 1985
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Nf-From: hp-pcd!dhk    Jul 22 11:03:00 1985

I haven't tried this yet, but I read in a Kawasaki magazine that putting your
sidestand down (if you can see where the wire runs through the pavement) will
trip an automatic light about half the time.  Don't know if it works but it
would be easy to try.

		Dustin Kassman
		!hplabs!hp-pcd!dhk
		Hewlett-Packard Company
		Corvallis, Oregon


PS.  In California (probably Oregon, too) if you park your bike and walk over
to trip the signal by using the pedistrian crosswalk button you can get
ticketed for 1) parking more than six inches (or some such distance) from a 
curb, 2) leaving a vehicle in an intersection, and possibly 3) improperly
operating a traffic signal.  I heard that here in Oregon, if you wait through
two cycles of the light and you proceed with care/caution/common sense/etc
you may go through the red light BUT I have not read this in any legal 
document so I am hesitant to try it.