Re:FlightCaster (YC S09) Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Fund...
by NikkiA on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @07:02AM
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Also, what's their rate on false positives?
False positives are a killer to the airlines - they don't want to risk losing customers to another flight/airline when there will actually be no delay.
To customers, false positives are likely to be a minor issue though, probably the number of true positives will outweigh occasional false positives.
But without a false positive rate near 0, I can't imagine the airlines themselves being too interested in flightcaster's predictions.
False positives are a killer to the airlines - they don't want to risk losing customers to another flight/airline when there will actually be no delay.
To customers, false positives are likely to be a minor issue though, probably the number of true positives will outweigh occasional false positives.
But without a false positive rate near 0, I can't imagine the airlines themselves being too interested in flightcaster's predictions.