Re:It’s 2017, every city needs buses with USB ports
by jseliger on Sunday January 22, 2017 @04:30PM
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but fits fairly well with an average person's daily schedule
In theory this is true but in practice lots and lots of my friends have dead phones or phones with older batteries or simply don't remember to recharge their batteries. I teach as an adjunct and students often carry chargers with them and plug their phones in during class (though I forbid phones and computers in class: https://jakeseliger.com/2008/12/28/laptops-students-distract...).
If you just look around, you'll probably see people with their faces in their phones all the time. This may be a bad thing in many respects (I tend to buy those arguments), but it can be good for public transportation, which lets people do the thing they really want to do. If we want better transportation systems, we have to get those systems to let people do the things they really want to do (i.e. stare into their phones).
In theory this is true but in practice lots and lots of my friends have dead phones or phones with older batteries or simply don't remember to recharge their batteries. I teach as an adjunct and students often carry chargers with them and plug their phones in during class (though I forbid phones and computers in class: https://jakeseliger.com/2008/12/28/laptops-students-distract...).
If you just look around, you'll probably see people with their faces in their phones all the time. This may be a bad thing in many respects (I tend to buy those arguments), but it can be good for public transportation, which lets people do the thing they really want to do. If we want better transportation systems, we have to get those systems to let people do the things they really want to do (i.e. stare into their phones).