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Apparently, for all traffic lights, there is a sensor next to the light that senses when ambulances or police cars are coming (I'm pretty sure of this actually).
What is amazing is that the code is apparently something that a universal remote can be hijacked to send too. Can I get some input on this? Seems pretty easy to do if you have a universal remote. Granted I'm a student without TV, but someone on this forum must have one.
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/94659/Change_Traffic_Lights_With_A_Universal_Remote.html
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hm probably it may be possible to do, but i dont think that the code you have to program is as easy as 911.
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sounds like an april's fool joke too me. besides that, the sensor is under the road afaik, might be wrong on this one though.
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afaik, the shit is all on timers, no sensors involved at all
oh, and that video is bullshit
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I don't know where you're from, but around here... ambulances and emergency vehicles don't change traffic lights. Everyone just slows down or stops, then whoever is in front of the ambulance moves until they're out of the way.
I think that video is full of crap. I've never heard about anything like this.
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On March 31 2007 01:51 TheosEx wrote: I don't know where you're from, but around here... ambulances and emergency vehicles don't change traffic lights. Everyone just slows down or stops, then whoever is in front of the ambulance moves until they're out of the way.
I think that video is full of crap. I've never heard about anything like this.
I don't know where you're from, but around here if a light is red at an intersection and there's a shitton of traffic in the way, the ambulance changes the light. It definitely happens, and those signlas are definitely real.
On March 31 2007 01:49 LaSt)ChAnCe wrote: afaik, the shit is all on timers, no sensors involved at all
There are sensors in the ground for many, if not most of them.
On March 31 2007 01:16 Aepplet wrote: sounds like an april's fool joke too me. besides that, the sensor is under the road afaik, might be wrong on this one though.
It is, but there's a flashing light on top of the things. The video quite clearly showed that.
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On March 31 2007 01:49 LaSt)ChAnCe wrote: afaik, the shit is all on timers, no sensors involved at all
oh, and that video is bullshit
hehe, ya, ambulances all time their runs so the traffic light turns green.. psht, duh obviously.... huh? maybe your intelligence is an april fools joke =} . not that the video is completely legit... just wanted to see if someone had a remote to give it a try.
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This is the dumbest thing i've ever read! There is no sensors in traffic lights, lol who's stupid enough to believe that? :D.
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so now i wonder about canada and mexico...
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eh? speed/power? it's a signal ur sending not a missile lol...
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On March 31 2007 02:48 MadNeSs wrote: This is the dumbest thing i've ever read! There is no sensors in traffic lights, lol who's stupid enough to believe that? :D.
As a Dane you should know better 
They (the Danish government) once considered experimenting with sensors in traffic lights so emergency vehicles could move unhinderede trough the traffic, but the idea was dropped, because of its abusiveness.
Here we just stop or drive in to the side if there's an emergency vehicle coming.
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This is real and it's nothing new...
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On March 31 2007 07:21 itemlock wrote: This is real and it's nothing new...
New to me.
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On March 31 2007 04:12 evanthebouncy~ wrote: eh? speed/power? it's a signal ur sending not a missile lol... Uh yea, a signal likely being transmitted by a device operating on AA batteries. Range ~ 10 meters.
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yeah there's sensors in stop lights. try flashing your brights a few times at a red light, sometimes it works ;D
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Btw, this is not true of every stoplight in the country. I've seen police and ambulance's run red lights numerous times in heavy traffic. I think they only add these in more metropolitan cities.
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Which would make it not worth it to go to jail and/or fined $10,000.
FYI: I don't think I've ever seen this in NY. Maybe it's the more newly built metropolitan cities.
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SOME traffic lights have them.
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