• marcos@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    What am I missing?

    Every traffic situation where people would need to cross but there won’t be a car stopper exactly over the sensor.

    Not exhaustively:

    • pedestrians

    • motorcycles

    • bicycles

    • cars stopped at the wrong place

    • naeap@sopuli.xyz
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      1 hour ago

      Ah, I see, thanks

      Well, die pedestrians there is usually a button at the crossover, so they get priority and a green light soon

      Bicycles at such crossings usually have a bike lane, because it’s (usually) only at high traffic crossings - and else they can use the pedestrian button

      Not sure about motorcycles though.
      Haven’t seen issues personally, but I can imagine, that the sensors aren’t trimmed to motorcycles sometimes.
      But have to say, that in every occasion I’ve had a motorcycle in front of me on such a sensor, it worked.
      Statistically probably not relevant though…