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How To Turn Red Lights Green

Screenshot:  Peter Fairlie on YouTube
Screenshot: Peter Fairlie on YouTube

We’ve all been there. You’re sitting at a red light, waiting. Waiting. Waiting. It starts to feel like you’ll never get your chance to go, like you’ll live and die in this intersection without ever moving an inch. You begin mentally writing your will, waiting for starvation to set in, when an ambulance creeps up in your rear-view mirror.

Suddenly, the light is green. The ambulance, by its very arrival, stunned your immutable traffic light into allowing safe passage for your lane of travel. “How did it do that,” you wonder, “and how can I do the same?” As it turns out, the answer is refreshingly simple — and deeply illegal.

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Flipper Zero Controlling Traffic Lights

The kind folks over at The Drive turned us on to the exploits of Peter Fairlie, a hacker and tinkerer on YouTube. Fairlie’s done a number of projects involving the Flipper Zero, a sort of Swiss Army knife for electronic experimentation — RFID, infrared, radio transmission; you name it, the Flipper can do it.