Motorcycle riders can buy a magnet to sent off a strong enough field to trigger the in-pavement sensors. Seems like this car needs that as well.
My friend enters this problem with his push bike he has to wait for a car to get out of our industrial estate to go home from work or walk and mount the bike outside the gates.
some states allow turn on red in that scenario.
if you have to wait an entire set of signals and yours doesn’t go, you can (cautiously) procede thru the red light.
A.) Magnets on motorcycles - I’ve tried one of those, not sure it did anything.
B.) In Texas (a great place to live) all traffic lights installed, replaced, repaired, or calibrated after 30 Sep 2007 (I think that’s the date) MUST recognize the presence of a motorcycle and react properly to same. It is the magnetic density that matters on most signal controllers.
I found that if I placed my bike, mostly the motor, in the upper left hand corner of the wire loop in the pavement, that it would trip the light just fine.