Never happened after 3/11 in Tokyo during my 4h walk home from work. I had to settle with buying beer from the convenience stores along the way.
Edit: the machines do say that they’ll do it, I just don’t know the threshold. I’m not sure it’s a seismic sensor either – I’d assume it’s a signal. Else you could possibly shake the machine for free drinks.
I saw that in a YouTube video shorts about Japan and they mentioned this and is covered by the government itself in that situation
It’s like the Waffle House of Japan
The Japanese vending machine culture is incredible.
Some of them have a built in microwave so they can dispense precooked meals.
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“Some”
I should move to Japan. 🤔
Not specifically for earthquake-sensitive vending machines, but for the empathy and thought that goes into imagining and then making possible something like that in the first place.
gonna shake the fuck outta,my local vending machine real quick
I feel that they would actually get more expensive in our nation currently, for any reason.
In America our vending machines have the same sensors so they can charge an extra “emergency fee” in life or death situations.
Hold on, what if someone shakes it for… Testing purposes
The cynical way to look at this would be to assume they did this because people broke into the machines before this feature existed so this saves them money on repairs or new machines
I just use a brick
I assume not all of them give free drinks and foods. Must be specific ones that are funded by the government.
The other day I listened to a Japanese radio program where the host complained about how he was in the middle of nowhere and extremely thirsty and had to give up on buying a drink because not only did the machine only accept cash, but it hadn’t been updated to accept the current design of Japanese paper money, so it wouldn’t take any of the cash he did have. So, you know. Not everything is so futuristic I guess.
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Never happened after 3/11 in Tokyo during my 4h walk home from work. I had to settle with buying beer from the convenience stores along the way.
Edit: the machines do say that they’ll do it, I just don’t know the threshold. I’m not sure it’s a seismic sensor either – I’d assume it’s a signal. Else you could possibly shake the machine for free drinks.
I saw that in a YouTube video shorts about Japan and they mentioned this and is covered by the government itself in that situation
It’s like the Waffle House of Japan
The Japanese vending machine culture is incredible.
Some of them have a built in microwave so they can dispense precooked meals.
[deleted]
“Some”
I should move to Japan. 🤔
Not specifically for earthquake-sensitive vending machines, but for the empathy and thought that goes into imagining and then making possible something like that in the first place.
gonna shake the fuck outta,my local vending machine real quick
I feel that they would actually get more expensive in our nation currently, for any reason.
In America our vending machines have the same sensors so they can charge an extra “emergency fee” in life or death situations.
Hold on, what if someone shakes it for… Testing purposes
The cynical way to look at this would be to assume they did this because people broke into the machines before this feature existed so this saves them money on repairs or new machines
I just use a brick
I assume not all of them give free drinks and foods. Must be specific ones that are funded by the government.
The other day I listened to a Japanese radio program where the host complained about how he was in the middle of nowhere and extremely thirsty and had to give up on buying a drink because not only did the machine only accept cash, but it hadn’t been updated to accept the current design of Japanese paper money, so it wouldn’t take any of the cash he did have. So, you know. Not everything is so futuristic I guess.
Nice
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