Why do street lights go out when I drive under them?

Question

Some times just single lights and sometimes an entire block will just turn off when I drive down the block. In Southern California and Hawaii.

Answer 1

You must be radioactive.

Answer 2

When you were three years old your heart was surgically replaced with an EMP.

Answer 3

when i drive by automatic lawn sprinklers they pop up and start spraying

Answer 4

There are some possibilities:

The kids (louts/hoods) thump the lamp posts in our street, and they go off.  This is because they are gas discharge bulbs.  The lamps restart soon after.

It may be that your car gives off a sound frequency that does the same thing.  An outright nonsensical guess; but it could be the case.  Could be a subsonic boom that disturbs the discharge (Still clutching at straws).

Maybe your car generates a supersonic frequency that causes a destructive interference with the frequency of the discharge tube - again a wild guess; but there is a slight scientific possibility that it happens,

It may be that a part of your car is reflecting light (from the bulb maybe, or the car, or anywhere else) onto the sensor on the light that automatically controls the light based on the surrounding light - automatic street lamps.

If I can dream up any more nonsensical possibilities, I'll add them....  enjoy

Answer 5

See, now that's why you should never buy a Kia.