Re:Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules
by conceit on Saturday September 12, 2015 @07:48AM
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> Create a good transit app with embedded tracking
if this would have to be mandatory it wouldn't catch on with anyone remotely concerned about privacy.
Re:Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules
by wpietri on Monday September 14, 2015 @09:49AM
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A group which, on present evidence, is about 0.1% of the population, which would not be a big problem for the scheme. But there's no reason to make it mandatory in that the goal is to make transit free and allocate money statistically. No harm would be done by putting some obscure checkboxes deep in the settings.
Re:Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules
by pluma on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @06:47AM
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Funny how the first idea in your head involves surveillance and the first idea in mine is socialising infrastructure (i.e. everybody pays).
You wouldn't happen to be American by any chance?
Now that smartphones are becoming ubiquitous, I suspect it could even be done statistically. Create a good transit app with embedded tracking. You'd know where people were trying to go to, how they ended up getting there, how long it took, etc.
Do that and you could eliminate all of the overhead of ticketing, charging, etc. It wouldn't be perfectly accurate, but it's not like the current system is either. [1]
[1] http://www.dw.com/en/jumping-the-barriers-on-the-paris-metro...