device for triggering traffic lights
 

Here is an idea...and maybe challenge for the technically minded....a device to trigger Traffic lights

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/11/a-potential-sol.html

aready posed and replied to quite a bit.

opps...goofed up the thread search:D

actually I think that ambulances and some cop cars have those sensors... I remember reading about a guy who somehow got his hands on one and drove to work in a few minutes, making all lights along the way- he eventually got busted because people monitoring the power grid noticed a pattern and it was not a cop...- I know you're-squirtdad- probably posting this as just a funny idea, but obviously realistically drivers would probably not be too happy... just a thought

Actually, the cop cars and ambulances have a different device that triggers (and accelerates) the green phase of the traffic lights so that they'll usually arrive at greens. We're talking about a loop trigger that makes the loop simply think that a car is sitting there waiting for the green.

I read somewhere awhile ago that one municipality was going to use this device on city buses. It supposedly would make the commute much faster and save on fuel.