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IIICodeIIIIIII
Profile Joined April 2006
China1101 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-03-30 15:24:42
March 30 2007 15:24 GMT
#1
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
dupek
Profile Joined January 2007
Switzerland214 Posts
March 30 2007 16:12 GMT
#2
hm probably it may be possible to do, but i dont think that the code you have to program is as easy as 911.
Life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, so get wasted all the time, and you will have the time of your life!
Aepplet
Profile Joined December 2003
Sweden2908 Posts
March 30 2007 16:16 GMT
#3
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.
LaSt)ChAnCe
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States2179 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-03-30 16:53:51
March 30 2007 16:49 GMT
#4
afaik, the shit is all on timers, no sensors involved at all


oh, and that video is bullshit
TheosEx
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States894 Posts
March 30 2007 16:51 GMT
#5
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.
SweeTLemonS[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
11739 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-03-30 16:54:13
March 30 2007 16:53 GMT
#6
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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IIICodeIIIIIII
Profile Joined April 2006
China1101 Posts
March 30 2007 17:09 GMT
#7
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.
MadNeSs
Profile Joined March 2007
Denmark1507 Posts
March 30 2007 17:48 GMT
#8
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.
TheosEx
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States894 Posts
March 30 2007 17:50 GMT
#9
I guess it is real after all... but highly illegal.


http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/08/68507

http://www.i-hacked.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=176

http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/irresponsible_activities/changingtraffi191404.html


Googled "Ambulance change traffic lights" - the list goes on and on...
IIICodeIIIIIII
Profile Joined April 2006
China1101 Posts
March 30 2007 18:03 GMT
#10
so now i wonder about canada and mexico...
CuddlyCuteKitten
Profile Joined January 2004
Sweden2603 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-03-30 18:35:05
March 30 2007 18:34 GMT
#11
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/Midwest/11/05/traffic.lights.ap/

Edit: I don't think a remote has the range, speed or power.
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evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
March 30 2007 19:12 GMT
#12
eh? speed/power?
it's a signal ur sending not a missile lol...
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Magicbox
Profile Joined June 2004
Denmark73 Posts
March 30 2007 19:25 GMT
#13
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.
itemlock
Profile Joined January 2007
United States256 Posts
March 30 2007 22:21 GMT
#14
This is real and it's nothing new...
???
BuGzlToOnl
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States5918 Posts
March 30 2007 22:35 GMT
#15
On March 31 2007 07:21 itemlock wrote:
This is real and it's nothing new...


New to me.
If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.
NewbSaibot
Profile Joined May 2004
3849 Posts
March 31 2007 02:05 GMT
#16
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.
I went to the chippy last night and only orderd chips because I knew I could get fish from her bushy plate.
AmorVincitOmnia
Profile Joined March 2005
Kenya3846 Posts
March 31 2007 03:04 GMT
#17
yeah there's sensors in stop lights.
try flashing your brights a few times at a red light, sometimes it works ;D
r.i.p. Bud Shank May 27, 1926 - April 2, 2009
NewbSaibot
Profile Joined May 2004
3849 Posts
March 31 2007 03:09 GMT
#18
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.
I went to the chippy last night and only orderd chips because I knew I could get fish from her bushy plate.
TheosEx
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States894 Posts
March 31 2007 05:45 GMT
#19
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.
pr0n
Profile Joined September 2005
United States277 Posts
March 31 2007 05:55 GMT
#20
SOME traffic lights have them.
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