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>Gyro/acceleration sensors - can't do, since it will be towed by a
truck.

Couldn't you use on acceleration meter in the door and one body of the
box. So that if you could detect acceleration in both you knew it would
be the truck moving and if only the door acceleration meter gave a
signal it would be the door.

Chuck Roberts

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