Why the intersection fairy ignores some people...

It never ceases to amaze me that people who have had their licenses for years still don’t know how to stop at an intersection.  I’ve watched people either pull too far forward or stop too far back at a traffic light with a sensor.  You can tell when you’re at one of these lights when you see a black line in the shape of a rectangle cut into the pavement, usually the size of one or more cars.  If you don’t stop at the right place, the sensor won’t sense you’re there, and the light won’t be triggered.  By the way, they're hardly ever weight activated - it's usually induction that triggers the light.

These same people probably don’t notice that almost every controlled intersection around has a thick white line, called a stop line.  Oddly enough, this stop line is where you’re supposed to stop.  It’s before you get to the pedestrian crosswalk, which is before you get into the lanes of traffic that cross your path.  If you stop on the stop line, everything works the way it’s supposed to.

Sure, you could go on believing that the intersection fairy will change the light quicker if you keep nudging forward every few seconds, but just for kicks, try applying that inconvenient common sense, and allow your car to be sensed. Please!