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There was a stoplight right by one of my old apartments which never would detect my motorcycle so I’d always have to make a right and U-turn if I didn’t want to
by UncleEntity 4y ago
There was a stoplight right by one of my old apartments which never would detect my motorcycle so I’d always have to make a right and U-turn if I didn’t want to wait until a car showed up.
Never seen a traffic light that can detect a bicycle, I’d just ride up on the sidewalk and press the crosswalk button if no cars were around.
- _dain_ 4y agoThere are new style ones that have some kind of motion detecting camera or radar or something. There's a little LED that lights up when it sees you.
- aidenn0 4y agoI believe in California they are required to detect bicycles. The old EM ones will detect my bicycle just fine as long as I stop directly over the seam in the pavement. The newer ones are optical
- goodcanadian 4y ago20 years ago, in Vancouver, I was somewhat pleasantly surprised that the coil in the pavement did indeed detect my bicycle, so there is certainly no engineering reason it can't be done.