Comment on How does an automatic road barrier decide when a vehicle is coming?

atlasraven31@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So a large wooden horse could slip by without detection

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  • AmidFuror@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How about a wooden badger?

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    • UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How about a Canadian beaver? They basically are wood

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    • atlasraven31@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      An aftican badger or a european?

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      • AmidFuror@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Huh? I don't know that... ahh!

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Badger my ass it’s probably milhouse

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• Narc082@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This, it’s like a metal detector but, bigger. Temporary boom gates might use infrared motion sensors like automatic lights.

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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s bigger in overall structure size, but isn’t really that big itself. It’s just a wire loop, they can be installed into existing roads with minimal effort - they just dig a narrow trench and then seal it up, it doesn’t require more tarmac.

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• tired_lemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Huh, so that’s a completely new concept I’ve learned today. Time to do more reading. Thanks!

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  • Tomahtoes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Check the road in front of the gate. Those loops are usually installed after the asphalt so there should be a loop patched up with tar a bit smaller than a footprint of an average car.

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