Usually as the pulse of traffic approaches the traffic lights from the opposite direction that's a sign they're about to change to green many drivers know the traffic light timings and speeds required between them to get through on green. When you enter a main road you either need to catch up with the pulse gone past or wait for the pulse behind to catch up to flow through the green lights.
I genuinely wish a lot more people knew/understood where the sensors are in the road, it annoys me that I know I’m waiting longer just because the car infront hasn’t stopped in the ‘right place’. Typically they’ve usually over shot the stop line altogether, which then leaves the car behind unable to get onto the road sensor/and or unaware themselves. This knowledge comes from the boredom of driving the same way too much and knowing the junctions inside and out, but it is a whole lot quicker for the lights to change in certain places when the car infront actually stops on the sensor.
+ST34D From what I understand, as long as the vehicle crosses or is picked up by a sensor the lights know it's there. There are many more factors which can add up to the lights changing which are not explained in the video. Thanks for watching.
Back in the 1960s travelling from Camden Town into the West End of London on a one Way street, if you kept at 28 mph you would hit every traffic light at green. It was the same heading out of town. So 2 mph under the 30 limit got you through, a black cabbie told me this one. They have the KNOWLEDGE.
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They are not ever ever pressure sensors! They are Hall effect loop sensors that detect changes in magnetic resonance as a vehicle is over them.
Pressure sensors also exist, but they are used for axle counting, not light timing.
I have to agree with Elijah.
Usually as the pulse of traffic approaches the traffic lights from the opposite direction that's a sign they're about to change to green many drivers know the traffic light timings and speeds required between them to get through on green. When you enter a main road you either need to catch up with the pulse gone past or wait for the pulse behind to catch up to flow through the green lights.
I genuinely wish a lot more people knew/understood where the sensors are in the road, it annoys me that I know I’m waiting longer just because the car infront hasn’t stopped in the ‘right place’. Typically they’ve usually over shot the stop line altogether, which then leaves the car behind unable to get onto the road sensor/and or unaware themselves.
This knowledge comes from the boredom of driving the same way too much and knowing the junctions inside and out, but it is a whole lot quicker for the lights to change in certain places when the car infront actually stops on the sensor.
+ST34D From what I understand, as long as the vehicle crosses or is picked up by a sensor the lights know it's there. There are many more factors which can add up to the lights changing which are not explained in the video. Thanks for watching.
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Excellent video, thanks for sharing.
I personally think the Amber light should be on a little longer because it's so easy to run a red light thinking you are going through Amber.
They should have Red and green lights only. I personally think Amber is a cop out!
I'm 54 and learnt something today.
Back in the 1960s travelling from Camden Town into the West End of London on a one Way street, if you kept at 28 mph you would hit every traffic light at green. It was the same heading out of town. So 2 mph under the 30 limit got you through, a black cabbie told me this one.
They have the KNOWLEDGE.
actually, I'm interested in this particular topic. Thanks for providing me such useful information.
can you share some topic name that i can search more about this sensor traffic things?
Does this sensor take you picture if you pass with red light
As you said, it's a sensor, it is not a camera, so no, it can not take a picture.
@@tonipeters-looks-at thank you Sir .
However the sensor past the line can trigger a camera elsewhere
@@1988dgs are you sure . Have seen many that pass with red and the camera is other side of joint
what i would like to know is why am i sitting at red traffic lights at 3am that refuse to change from red
What are the big rectangle black boxes are they sensors just a different shape
Big rectangle "boxes" in the road are induction loops, they detect if a vehicle is there or not.
ewwww. you can't left on red there?
No, we don't do that here in the U.K.