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- MrSketch, on 06/30/2008, -9/+388Best method: Stare at them. It works every time.
- snea, on 06/30/2008, -24/+304If I'm feeling slightly impatient I just pull my gun out from under my seat fire a few shots at the goddamn things. I'm not a very good shot but usually after around the third shot the light is all like "Oh ***** I better turn green right now!" and it changes for me. On time I was trying to turn left and the ***** piece of ***** light gave me a green light rather than a green arrow and I was able to empty my clip and put out the red bulb before I finally ***** had a chance to go.
- kevman459, on 06/30/2008, -15/+188Slowly creep forward every few seconds that the light doesn't change. Many of these lights require you to move your car at least 3 times after coming to an initial stop.
Also most of the sensors are well beyond the "stop line" so you should position your car about halfway into the intersection. - DeskFlyer, on 06/30/2008, -6/+141Just ask me to drive on the intersecting street and you'll get a green light every ***** time.
- kmattso, on 06/30/2008, -2/+104Right, U-turn, Right.
- byrc, on 06/30/2008, -2/+96Also works with women, trust me.
- zzz@tkz, on 06/30/2008, -8/+101Pussy.
- Thrash16, on 06/30/2008, -2/+89This actually works when the real lights are out and it's a police officer directing traffic...
- samuelmcm, on 06/30/2008, -1/+81Hmm, we should report the "Attach neodymium magnets to the vehicle." idea to the Mythbusters.
It'd be interesting to see what they find. - StealthMonkey, on 06/30/2008, -1/+74I can't stop laughing. You made my day better.
- louiebaur, on 06/30/2008, -13/+80Man when I am on my bike I can never trigger the light and I usually have to just run it!
- thechadstannard, on 06/30/2008, -2/+58I like how they say to glue a magnet to the bottom of your car. Why do you need to glue it? It is a magnet!
- WallnutBoy, on 06/30/2008, -23/+795. Pray as you approach.
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -2/+56All you have to do is look around to make sure there's no cop/camera, then the light is green.
- MasterThief117, on 07/01/2008, -0/+38It makes them turn green?
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -3/+36Almost nothing makes me think less of drivers that slowly inch their way into the intersection. It's like their destination is so incredibly important, that the several milliseconds they're going to save by being inches ahead of the rest of traffic will somehow make them get there faster. So annoying (and pointless).
- Spamiclese, on 06/30/2008, -0/+33It should be noted that trying to change a light by flashing your headlights to flip the emergency vehicles sensor is a ticketable offense.
- unusualbob, on 07/01/2008, -0/+32those are blue
- psion01, on 06/30/2008, -19/+49Holy crap! You're supposed to STOP for red lights?
My bad. - lostsymphonies1, on 06/30/2008, -15/+45I'd rather not put half of my car into oncoming traffic
- DeathJux, on 06/30/2008, -0/+28So if that's your response when you're slightly impatient, what do you do when you're really in a hurry?
Suitcase bomb? Howitzer? - The_Red_Monkey, on 06/30/2008, -1/+29Its for an infrared device not your high beams. I hate those morons who flash their high beams at every light.
- Diggnabbit, on 06/30/2008, -1/+26"all our traffic lights are just on timers =P"
So are the vast majority of American ones. - fredmv, on 06/30/2008, -6/+31Richard Dawkins would disagree with that one.
- StealthMonkey, on 06/30/2008, -6/+30myth
- nymphetamine, on 07/01/2008, -2/+25*Note: pants must be worn when doing so.
- KaneElson, on 07/01/2008, -0/+21Congratulations, you can spam the same link at every mention of flashing lights. I think we get the picture....
- Tiphys, on 06/30/2008, -1/+21That was stupid both times.
- subliminali, on 06/30/2008, -6/+24you just ask the north korean traffic lady very nicely and she lets you through.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt31epdorY4 - Davrioza, on 06/30/2008, -1/+19Erm... I'm British too, and the majority of our lights are in fact sensor operated... you probably just didn't notice :S or maybe you live in a really ***** area or smthing ;P
- hagfish70, on 06/30/2008, -4/+22Or you can wait patiently and miss that additional 5 - 10 mins of TV watching.
- itspuddingtime, on 07/01/2008, -1/+19believe it or not this maneuver was around long before xkcd
- tacohead, on 06/30/2008, -1/+18so does snake oil.
- vtnerd, on 07/01/2008, -1/+17*whoosh*
- TStanNY, on 06/30/2008, -7/+21I usually just fly over them on my Dolorean time machine.
- ocbeta, on 06/30/2008, -1/+15I don't know what you are trying 2 say
- bjornski, on 06/30/2008, -1/+15"Hey! The light is green, why did you stop?"
"My brother might be coming from the other direction!" - FTWmovin2canada, on 06/30/2008, -0/+14I can almost always get my bike to trigger the light just by stopping in the right area like the article talks about.
- spriggig, on 07/01/2008, -0/+13I've always thought people in my town *enjoyed* waiting at stop lights, considering how quickly they rush up to them.
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -0/+12I love you 2?
- PoonGnarfler, on 07/01/2008, -3/+15The Flying Spaghetti Monster always uses His Noodly Appendage to turn a light green for me. Perhaps this "Richard Dawkins" simply does not believe enough...
- Raptor007, on 06/30/2008, -1/+13By the way, this article is mostly for motorcycle drivers (the article states this, but the Digg entry doesn't). Not much applicable to cars except the magnet trick, which may or may not have any effect.
- d722002, on 07/01/2008, -0/+11Offer does not apply outside of Michigan.
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -3/+14That a magnet passing over a conductive loop causes inductance?
Mythbusters wouldn't even waste time on this. Seriously, I don't understand why people doubt these magnets. You're car or bike acts like a magnet to cause inductance in the first place, look up eddy currents and inductance. - fxu1989, on 06/30/2008, -2/+12I just finished watching Wanted, and now I'm reading this and I'm imagining you doing a curve bullet to the traffic lights.
- seeyounorth, on 06/30/2008, -1/+11In Arizona, there are several lights that have two of these sensors in the left hand turn lanes. Pulling forward to the first sensor will not allow a left hand turn arrow (if no one is behind you). But if you stop just short (about one car length behind the stop line, it triggers the second sensor which gives you the left hand turn arrow. Naturally this is only necessary when you are faced with having to turn left and not wanting to wait for all the traffic to pass first. Call it selfish or whatever but I call it a small traffic light hack.
- PalmerEldritch, on 06/30/2008, -2/+12I always thought the red lights meant "slow down to the speed limit"
- gquaglia, on 06/30/2008, -1/+11The loops are crap. NJ is starting to phase them out in favor of pole mounted cameras that sense a vehicle waiting in the intersection.
- dnields, on 06/30/2008, -0/+8"I just use the force, and gesture Obi-Wan like at the light. Sometimes it takes a few tries"
Do or do not. There is no try. - YogiWanKenobi, on 06/30/2008, -0/+8You could just toss a coin, since it has a 50% chance of making the light turn green as well.
Or learn about causation. -
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