But in the reader comments section beneath the FT piece, many couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about. “I’m surprised to see the FT reporting this sort of thing,” one person wrote.

2005-02-14, Parthasarathy, Anand, “Smart phones embrace the Penguin”, in The Hindu, ISSN 0971-751X:

[S]he resumed her former occupation, and continued to soliloquize and apostrophize her absent hand-maidens, without even appearing sensible of his presence.

I believe there were pressure pads embedded in the road to monitor the amount of traffic.