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Modern cars and the devices people carry in them emit all kinds of identifying information constantly. There are off the shelf boxes available to collect this information from every car/truck as it passes. No need to get fancy with induction coils if tracking is your goal.
My understanding is the coils are really used for measuring the flow of traffic.
There's a lot of older cars on the road (including mine), and I'm typically not carrying any devices on me. I've read some articles that discuss such technologies, but there's no clear indicators of them being around roads I'm utilizing; not to the extend of these induction coils for example. Cameras installed with the supposed intent of monitoring traffic, are also increasingly used in criminal investigations; so it's not unthinkable data from these sensors might be approached similarly.