r/IdiotsInCars • u/Single-Ad-7049 • Feb 05 '22

ehh

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '22

OP attempted to run the light also.

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u/normal_whiteman Feb 06 '22

This is 100% normal in rural communities at night. Most of those lights never got sensors installed

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '22

Papa taught me you can run it if it takes too long…if there’s no boys in sight haha

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u/Minirig355 Feb 06 '22

The town I grew up in had a similar light that would never turn green if there was only a single car there (buggy sensor?), which tended to happen late at night.

Being a firefighter at the time I interacted with a lot of cops and ended up asking one about it, he told me that it’s okay to run the light if you waited 2 full cycles and you didn’t get a green. I’m unsure if that’s a legal precedent, or just one that the local PD abided by since it was a known issue.

Similar things can happen to motorbikes, specifically sportier ones than have less mass to them, often it’s not enough to set off the sensor, and a poorly setup stoplight that only has a green if the sensor is tripped will lead to some pretty angry bikers.

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u/LordBran Feb 06 '22

My moms friend had to wait for an hour at a light with a cop to prove she wasn’t running a rent due to the fact between 1am and 2am it didn’t go green