Originally Posted by
wipekitty
Maybe not quite at the same level of intelligence, but I thought it was the coolest thing ever when the Denver area transit system started providing real-time tracking on the buses. It made it so much more convenient to take the bus because you could tell exactly when it would come and plan to get there right on time, rather than waiting around.
Atlanta's MARTA does that too and it is nice but not as nice as it should be because sometimes the "real time" position of the bus on the virtual map lags behind where it really is. If you're trying to catch a bus that already passed your stop but looks like it's not quite there yet that just leads to a lot more waiting. If the system does that 10% of the time then you're always wondering where the bus REALLY is and whether you just missed it (which shows itself on the virtual map as a bus that zips past you without stopping
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