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Originally posted by vermin
Streetlights are controlled by photocells that turn them off when they "see" light, and turn them on when it's dark. Sometimes a car's headlights can reflect off of a wet road or a parked car window, hit the photocell, and turn off the light. It's not magic. It's a switch.
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Does that mean in my case that I am that friggin evil or have a darkness about me, that they turn on when I pass under them?
This has also happened where they turn on for me in broad daylight, not dusk or early morning, but midafternoon.
Also I've been on an completely empty completely dry freeway with nothing reflective and this has happened to me where they turn off, my car is very dark and unreflective as well, so it's not my car doing it.
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Originally posted by crow_daw
The Straight Dope covered this topic, and I read it.
This is just one of those things, you only notice it when it happens.
Do you ever notice all the times a streetlight doesn't do this? Of course not. If it really was you, then the lights would either always do this, or quite often, but I bet only occurs about .001% of the time you pass under a streetlight, but it seems so strange that you notice it.
In The Straight Dope, it all just boiled down to coincidence.
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Actually this happens to me about 50% of the time. And it is not the same ones either.