Lots of interesting stuff baked into this one. Personally I really enjoy the bitching about the cashier who weighs the vegetables as if slow checkout lines don't exist in the west

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    3 years ago

    They are induction sensors. Just a big coil of wire set into the asphalt. The reason why motorcycles often don’t trip them is a combination of the use of non-ferrous materials to save weight (aluminum doesn’t induce electromagnetism as well as steel) and the significantly smaller amount of ferrous material on the vehicle (smaller engines, frames, etc).