Stuck at a red light? Here’s how to make the signal detect your vehicle

Waiting alone at a red light that simply refuses to turn green can feel like the universe is pranking you. Anyone who has driven late at night, or who rides a scooter or bike, knows that sinking feeling when the signal acts blind to your presence. You inch forward, you roll back, you try changing lanes, yet nothing convinces the stoplight to acknowledge you. The good news is that most of these stubborn red lights are not ignoring you on purpose. They rely on detection systems, and if your vehicle fails to register, the signal does not receive the message that someone is waiting. A peer-reviewed transportation study published in IET Intelligent Transport Systems showed that smaller vehicles, particularly two-wheelers and bicycles, are missed by faulty or poorly calibrated inductive loo