so - early this morning i sat an intersection and realized that the cycle totally skipped me and my mini se three cycles in a row. after the first time, i pulled up a little thinking maybe i had not triggered a sensor. I think this has happened to me at this same light once before. Guessing something is not configured properly but did think that this did not occur in my acura. TBH I do know that there was recent work done on this intersection, but still was wondering if this has happened to anyone rise in their mini?
When I first got my 1,850-lb all-aluminum gen-1 Honda Insight, I had that happen to me at one intersection in town. I complained and they must have changed a setting on the sensor, because it started working and I never had a problem after that. At more than a ton and a half, your MINI Cooper SE is definitely not too light. I suspect a problem with the sensor.
Some intersections use an overhead sensor, not a weight sensor. (How do I know this? As an ever-exploring youth, a buddy of mine and I discovered that if both of us ran under the sensor, the light would change. We would wait until we saw a car coming, and we would trigger the red light. Ah, youth.) I have to agree with insightman - it's not your Mini.
yeah was mostly joking - i do know there are diffferent types of sensors and that’s why i shifted position in between cycles but it was super annoying to be ‘invisible’ - pretty sure i would have been seen by the red light camera!
Never had an issue with coils or overhead sensors in my 8’6”-long, 1680-lb smart. Even a 350-lb dualie motorbike with a chassis a foot off the ground will trigger a coil sensor.
I may be wrong but the light sensors are not weight based but rather are inductive loops. (Like huge metal detectors) They look for a large metallic mass to pass over them to sense a car. It is possible the sensor at that light is just broken. Sent from my iPhone using Inside EVs
Yup exactly, nor are they dependent on “size”; a smart fortwo or Scion/Toyota iQ easily triggers the coil, as do most motorbikes.
I've only ever had issues with a small scooter. I see plenty of other people have an issue with my nearest light. They are the ones who stop the wrong side of the line. There is no sensor there...
