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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  • astraeus@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If the large wooden horse is full of men in metal armor, purely hypothetically speaking, would the loop still not pick up the large wooden horse?

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    • wkk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Technically speaking it would pick up the men in metal armors, not the wooden horse per se.

      But the barrier would lift for the wooden horse full of men in armor indeed.

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      • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Depends on how high on their horse they are: They might be too far away to trigger the sensor.

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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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