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when I was a kid (a long time ago) those cabinets were full of electro-mechanical relays, you could hear them clicking. I discovered that by thumping against t
by Taniwha 9y ago
when I was a kid (a long time ago) those cabinets were full of electro-mechanical relays, you could hear them clicking.
I discovered that by thumping against the box hard the traffic lights would suddenly change so I could cross.
I did this exactly once because while no one had an accident the traffic got a bit hairy for a minute as lights changed early without a yellow phase ....
- tallanvor 9y agoI'm not sure just how accurate it was, but I still remember the first season MacGyver episode "Thief of Budapest" where he adjusted the settings to create a traffic jam.
- jfk13 9y agoThat sounds a lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Italian_Job#Plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Italian_Job#Plot
- Analemma_ 9y agoI'm willing to bet you forced the system into an all-red "safe mode" when it detected tampering.