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From: kgdykes@watbun.UUCP
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Subject: re Re Smart Traffic Lights?
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Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 03:45:02 EDT
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 >From: dhk@hp-pcd.UUCP (dhk)
 >
 >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.
 >
Boy o boy have I been dense!  When I meet one of those evil lights in my
town and wait too-long for it I go and push the pedestrian button.
But what always got me is how the light decided to start the "change cycle"
just as I got off the bike and before I made it to the button....
Voila! I put the side-stand down before disembarking (usually :-)

 >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
What do you mean by "two cycles"????? If the light is always red for me,
 its always in its first cycle (isnt it???)

          - Ken Dykes
            Software Development Group, U. of Waterloo
            Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.  N2L 3G1
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