Originally Posted by
cyccommute
The video sensor is the trickiest one to trip. I can trip them at night because I can either shine my helmet light on them or the notice my lights. During the daylight, the cameras are specifically calibrated to ignore narrow targets like pedestrians. Often cyclists fall into this category. I've found that if I stand at the light waving my arms like an idiot I can trip the light about 50% of the time.
Of course, if the light doesn't trip, I treat it as a malfunctioning light and proceed...with caution.
Wow, I find my local video sensor works great.
Here in San Diego, we have an on line form that we can use to send complaints to the street division... and if I were having issues with that sensor, I would send them a complaint... but it works better than any other sensor I can think of...
Now as far as that complaint form, I do use it often.... and complain about things from bushes into the bike lane to bad pavement to non working sensors... and they send back responses and task numbers. And I follow up.
Do you have such a complaint form locally?