# Stuck at a redlight?

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**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [July 15, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stuck-at-a-redlight/51509 "2008-07-15T08:07:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stuck-at-a-redlight/51509/21 "2008-07-15T08:52:13Z")

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> [@newman](#):
>
> Holy fuck this thread is full of misinformation…
> 
> OK…
> 
> There are no weight sensors in the road.
> 
> I do not know of any over-road red light vehicle sensing arrays in WNY.
> 
> The way the red light knows you’re there is by an inductance loop in the pavement. (Works the same way as a metal detector) Your bike does not have enough inductive mass to trip the sensor.
> 
> Waving your arms is the stupidest thing i have EVER heard.
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> putting your kickstand down on or near a sensing strip is your best bet.

Its not what I meant. I know about the sensors in the road.

For the intersection I brought up, they changed the placement of the lights, but not the sensors. So before when the lights hung over the middle of the intersection, everything was good. But since they put the new lights up, they are farther away from the intersection (essentially directly over where the sensors are.)

So you either stop farther back so you can see the light when it changes (which it won’t unless someone else approaches form the other side) or you stop where the sensor is but then you can’t see the light (so you don’t know when it actually does change.)

Hope that clarifies what I wrote.

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