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All traffic lights I've encountered that are triggered use magnetic triggers and work with bikes. Additionally their failsafe for night operation is to go into
by zaarn 7y ago
All traffic lights I've encountered that are triggered use magnetic triggers and work with bikes. Additionally their failsafe for night operation is to go into yield-traffic mode; the yellow light blinks, indicating that the intersection is no longer governed by the light but by the normal right-of-way. As a last option, you can trigger the pedestrian light manually by getting of your bike.
- rxhernandez 7y agoThis is absurd; you so clearly have not ridden a motorcycle in California or maybe at all; the number of lights that aren't triggered by a motorcycle is quite large; so large that there is an accessories market for adding a "larger magnetic field" to bikes; getting off the bike is just asking for someone to run you over because they weren't expecting a pedestrian on the roadway (one of those roadways I can think of off the top of my head had a light that wouldn't trigger on a winding freeway off ramp; I was always fearful that a motorist would kill me at this particular light).
- zaarn 7y agoNo, I haven't ridden motorcyles in California, since I live in Germany. We probably just have better traffic lights. They even trigger when I use my bicycle! Why are you fearing being run over when walking along a red light?
- magduf 7y agoYou have better traffic lights then. Many US states have laws the specifically allow motorcycles to run red lights as long as they stop and wait a certain amount of time.