Content-Type: text/html Traffic light sensors <1994Jun13.144554.1@dcd00.fnal.gov>

rec.motorcycles: Traffic light sensors

From: colombo@dcd00.fnal.gov (Rick Colombo)
Organization: Fermilab Computing Division
Date: 13 Jun 94 14:45:54 -0600
Message-ID: <1994Jun13.144554.1@dcd00.fnal.gov>
References: <94060923510317611@ctobbs.com>

In article <94060923510317611@ctobbs.com>, mark.howard@ctobbs.com (Mark Howard) writes:
> 
> Quoting Dimon@seas.Gwu.Edu (bruce B. Dimon)
>  who posted a message about Re: Traffic light sensors:
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>>: bike on the side stand, get off the bike... and walk over and press
>>: the pedestrian crossing button on the traffic light post. Oh yes,
>>: it's low tech and doesn't require any equations of knowledge of mass,
>>: ferrous metals or tidal forces, but it works. (If there IS a
>>: pedestrian crossing button present, at least)
>>
>>Unfortunately it's illegal in many locations. Sigh...
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> Bruce, Where is this illegal? What law makes it so?  Sigh..
> 


I don't know, but is there a law against parking a (presumably) running
MC on the road and walking away from it?  I know you can get a ticket
for leaving a car while it's running.


RC