iraziel

I dont see how accidents could happen if youd duplicate the signal, otherwise emergency vehicles would "cause" them themselves. As for screwing up the timing...The lights should continue with the regular sequence after the vehicle hasstopped broadcasting the signal tothe light, and if they are tuned with other lights then those should also make adjustments accordingly; a light shorter or longer than usual.

Interesting tho...

67mustang302

It's called Opticon, and yes you can cause accidents. Even though the light changes, it does so quickly and can catch drivers unaware, plus emergency vehicles still have lights and sirens and are still legally required to cross the intersection safely, regardless of Opticon. It's for emergency vehicles only, and not all emergency vehicles even have them.

Kmoran81

In some cities the lights have photo (dont be confused with "pictures") sensors on them. They can detect the flashing lights coming and that will tell the lights to start the changing sequence. Try flashing your high beams as your coming towards the light. If your city has them, it will start the light changing sequence. But go slowly as it takes over 7 seconds for the light on the other intersection to change from green to yours changing green.

***DISCLAMIER***
And yes it may cause an accident.

(Thats just the way my city is, it may be different for yours)

iraziel

Interesting......[sm=innoc.gif]

natbel08

its that wayfor most of the lights in my city too

i almost never do it because im not ever in that big of a hurry and ithink that you get a pretty big ticket if a cop sees you

kenv

There was a story in one of our local papers a little while back about a tractor trailer driver who had one of those devices. Seems he was driving up rt 132 which has one light right after the other. He changed every light as he went along until a motorist noticed what he was doing & called 911 ( In our section, when an emergency vehicle changes a light, there is a white spotlight that sits between the traffic signals, & it flashes on & off to let the EM vehicle know that it has received their command to change the signal) He was stopped by the cops-----BIIIIIIiiiiiig FIIIIiiiine---

MU71L4710N

it will change the lights much quicker than they normall do on a timer to accomodate a speeding emergency vehicle. and thats also a one time thing, not some ****ing jackass who thinks hes too good to wait at a red light like the rest of us. u enjoy bieng at red lights? i dont either, and if its cuz some jackass has some stupid *** thing on his car to make the lights change in his favor i would hope his tires get slashed.

Bobert

I think the light changes faster.


If you were to do this, finding the frequency would be easy. Making it have a large range, and not getting caught would be hard.

OnyxCobra

I don't think they'd use it if it changed the lights quickly and caused accidents, i mean if one person is being a ****tard and crashes thats one thing but if it happened all the time they wouldn't do it. I'd suspect the lights change at normal time and people would be just fine.