30 points by thoughtpeddler 4 days ago | 41 comments
suhastech 2 days ago
aguaviva 1 day ago
So in that sense I find the reference to be useful, and not clickbait.
DerekL 2 days ago
The correction is in this article: https://sfist.com/2024/08/07/muni-to-update-train-control-sy....
DerekL 2 days ago
tdeck 2 days ago
DerekL 2 days ago
“Muni” isn't an acronym, it's short for “Municipal Railway”.
musicale 1 day ago
ww520 2 days ago
I’ve asked someone work inside and he said the suppliers of the readers won’t upgrade them. Not sure what the deal is.
rsynnott 2 days ago
Though, I still have ~$8 Clipper credit on my phone that I may or may not ever use...
ww520 2 days ago
acchow 2 days ago
They also support Apple’s Transit card (Clipper card in your Apple Wallet) so it works by tapping your phone, without unlocking it. It should also work with your iPhone turned off (newer models I think iPhone 14+ only)
mind_heist 2 days ago
numpad0 1 day ago
At that point you might as well fuse those features into one companion computer and let it handle NFC payments under certain conditions, so people can take a safe ride home with a dead phone.
acchow 1 day ago
ThePowerOfFuet 2 days ago
danudey 2 days ago
It's not worth the money to the suppliers to go through the trouble of managing the upgrade of that one system alone; likely there's an opportunity cost where they have limited resources and they want to focus on the bigger projects making bigger impacts and bigger sales.
The last building I lived in, the sliding balcony doors were all starting to wear out. Building management called the company that made the doors to ask them about repairs or replacement and were told that the cost of replacing the doors for people isn't worth their time; basically, why would they come fix our old balcony doors for $x when they could spend their time on building and installing new balcony doors on a new build for $xx?
Tostino 2 days ago
MichaelZuo 2 days ago
numpad0 1 day ago