| From: | Fhaolan arkemp@*****.ca |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Weird: Trafic Lights (fwd) |
| Date: | Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:25:42 -0800 |
>"And now, a Channel 6 editorial reply to somebody..."
>] > I was wondering if anybody else with Shadowrun pages has weird messages
>] > sent to their accounts from people wanting to buy their products. I
>] > (attempt) to maintain the McGorimic's catalog, and often get requests for
>] > everything from Navy SEAL rings to people wanting actual catalogs. My
>] > latest is probably my most ammusing to date.
>
> I forgot who wrote this :)
>
> My roomate just told me about something interesting. It seems that
>the traffic lights in New Brunswick's capital (that's Canada) have a
>little sensor on them. It "sees" the flashing lights of emergency
>vehicles, and changesthe lights so they can get through. Apparently,
>you can simulate this by flashing your high-beams repeatedly...
>just what that fellow was looking for. Strange, eh?
They have these thingies in Ontario too, but usually only on lights that
are likely to have lots of emergency vehicles pass through. They don't work
off of the flashing lights on the emergency vehicle, but off a very small
high-intensity white strobe that sits just ahead of the regular emergency
lights. I've never heard of being able to duplicate the effect of the
strobe with high-beams. Personally, I doubt it, unless you've got really
bizarre high-beams... :)
I've seen these things in action. Well, either that or somebody was
tracking the position of the fire-engine and remotely cycling the lights on
some kind of control panel somewhere.
-Fhaolan
