Traffic Lights

[the_lone_wolf]

The Opticom Infrared System uses coded infrared emitters mounted on your emergency and/or transit vehicles to communicate with the intersection traffic controller to provide a temporary right-of-way for your vehicles. Proven effective at thousands of intersections throughout the world, the Opticom infrared system can dramatically improve safety at intersections while minimizing traffic disruptions, accelerating response times and improving service reliability.

http://www.gtt.com/Products/Opticom-IR

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

see edited post... frequency makes no difference, it's an IR transmitter that's fitted to emergency vehicles that transmits an encoded signal to change the lights, nothing to do with visible light at all

the reason people think flashing their lights works is just misperception of a chance event, your subconcious over-represents the times flashing your lights "worked" by fluke and under-represents the times it didn't when forming an opinion of whether flashing your lights works or not

You obviously didn't read my post properly. I saw your edited post, and replied with the below.

Originally Posted by Baph

That's the reason I said "just the right frequency." Pulsing the lights has at least appeared to generate the desired results on many static lights for me. Both in the car and on the bike.

Note the "appeared to generate the desired results" part.

My basic aim, was that if folks believe it works, they're less frustrated.

Besides that, I'm sure I'm not the only person to of fitted UV lighting to their bike (I know SoulKiss was considering it, but don't know if he ever did). IR isn't beyond the realm of possibility.

Whilst on that subject, since bulbs have a "warm up" phase, you probably get a fair amount of IR light from an incandesant bulb (never tested the theory though) when going from 0V to putting current through the filament (I know you certainly won't go from nothing immediately to visible light). The "coded" part however would be more difficult on a headlight, as the IR range wouldn't respond anywhere near quick enough.

FWIW, yes, I'm in the office, and I'm bored again.

[the_lone_wolf]

Boys. Get a room.

My question has been answered.

Nerd alert. NERD ALERT!

[Red Herring]

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

http://www.gtt.com/Products/Opticom-IR

But not in the UK as far as I am aware......

Originally Posted by Red Herring

But not in the UK as far as I am aware......

Correct, we do not have that in the UK. For a start we do not have a intersection traffic controller.