Special transport: Some intersection not cleared of traffic [NOT A BUG]

[zwede]

Version 1.37.0.69. When doing a special transport I will occasionally come to an intersection with cars waiting at the light and have to stop. This doesn't make sense to me, those cars should have been waved through the light by the police before I get there (i.e. not having been spawned in the first place).

[TruckerDog]

Hello,

This is not a bug. As far as I know, the police has to prepare the routing for the special convoy to pass by. I get what you mean, but yeah... not a bug.

[zwede]

Well, what I'm talking about are intersection where the police has prepared the route. There are police cars parked blocking the intersection and everything is prepared. But there are cars waiting at the light so I have to stop. That doesn't seem right to me.

[TruckerDog]

Can you make a screenshot of that and post it here?

[zwede]

Ok, so I did a special transport to Las Cruces and captured this. IMO in real life those cars at the stop light would have been waved through against the light by police before I would get there so the intersection is clear.

It might be a little hard to see (the forum made the pic smaller), but the light is red and the cars are stopped. This is in Alamogordo.

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[TruckerDog]

Thanks @zwede

Those cars are just respecting the normal traffic rules. The signal is red, so they wait. A special transport cargo transport is not an emergency vehicle that needs to pass through all traffic. Meaning others can be indeed blocked to enter the intersection, but those who are already there... They gotta go somewhere, right?

I get what you mean, though. They could be waived through to not be blocking the road where you're doing to drive through. That would require further programming adjustments but the current behavior is not seen as a bug.

Not spawning the cars at all wouldn't be a solution either. When you consider that those cars didn't arrive from the intersections with the police cars blocking but also from the same road where you were coming from, then there's no way to block the cars in the middle of the road you're driving through.

Therefore I still conclude that this isn't a bug at all.

[danbywinby]

Sorry to jump in here, but i just want to confirm that i am understanding this correct.

You are saying that it is not a bug that at some red lights/intersections on a special transport route we will have to stop at red lights because there is AI in front of us that will not go through the red light?

If this is the case then what is the point in us being escorted by police? I was of the understanding that the whole point of the police escort is so that we don't have to stop at red lights/intersections. Is this not the case?

Also i would like to mention that this is something that i have never had happen to me on a special transport route in ETS2 however it has happened to me once or twice in ATS.

[cip]

If those cars will move when traffic lights turn green, this is not a bug definitely! I would like too see this actually, because the special transport is too easy without much traffic challenges I have my problems with detours spawning in places where I have no choices for an alternative route, but special transport is working fine

[danbywinby]

But as i said the whole point of the police escort is so that we do not have to stop for red lights/intersections. If we have to stop because other vehicles in front of us have stopped for red lights/intersection then in my opinion that is a bug.

Maybe to make this better/more realistic we could go on the other side of the road to get around the vehicles that have stopped for the red light. We have a police escort so no reason to not. Or maybe the AI could always leave a lane open for us so that we can still go straight through. Or maybe just have the AI move to the far side of their lane (like they can do for random events/overtaking the escort on the highway) this way there would be a gap for us to go straight through.

[cip]

I did not say it is correct, but it's not a bug Special transport is not that advanced so the escort and implicitly the player will overtake stopped vehicles at red light, and neither Ai aren't that "smart" to move on the shoulders and clear the lane maybe these could be introduced in future game updates, for the time being this is not a bug