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Old 10-30-18, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by tandempower
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If only we could trigger advanced left-turn arrows on bikes.

There was a youtube video a few years ago claiming you could trigger the light sensor by standing on a metal circle on the intersection, but I think it might have been a prank to sucker people into thinking manhole covers were traffic light sensors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj-mNB6dLkk
In theory traffic light sensors can be triggered by bikes but in my experience they don't work very well, so if I am alone at an intersection I usually scoot over and press the pedestrian button. One problem is that they use magnetic sensors which don't register aluminum bikes. As it happens, mine are steel, but even so they don't seem to activate the sensor.
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