I REALLY don’t like even more cameras tracking everyone (because that is the real purpose of this) but… that ship has sailed.
Tangential: Maybe a decade ago in the UK I had to catch a train. Smaller station and their ticket booth was empty and the machines were broken. Looked around, awkwardly waved at a camera, and just got on the next train. When I arrived at my destination, I hopped off and made a beeline to the ticket booth to explain what happened and make even.
As I am walking away from the platform I see three burly ass guys rush to the now empty train and start searching it. And when I start talking to the ticket counter the girl just starts laughing. Apparently they had detected I had not paid a fare and were going to hunt me down. And I literally walked past the security guards as they rushed it.
Nobody detected you and went to find you. That…just isn’t a thing. Fare evasion here in the UK is handled by checking tickets. I don’t know what you saw, but it wasn’t what you thought it was
On San Francisco MUNI broken machines mean rides are free. It was a common policy in the States taken advantage by a penny protest in the mid 20th century, in which a fare increase by pennies was responded to by riders paying exclusively in pennies, quickly jamming the machines.
DDG won’t find it since Daniel Penny recently killed someone in NYC by choke hold in the subway system, so all the news is about that.
I REALLY don’t like even more cameras tracking everyone (because that is the real purpose of this) but… that ship has sailed.
Tangential: Maybe a decade ago in the UK I had to catch a train. Smaller station and their ticket booth was empty and the machines were broken. Looked around, awkwardly waved at a camera, and just got on the next train. When I arrived at my destination, I hopped off and made a beeline to the ticket booth to explain what happened and make even.
As I am walking away from the platform I see three burly ass guys rush to the now empty train and start searching it. And when I start talking to the ticket counter the girl just starts laughing. Apparently they had detected I had not paid a fare and were going to hunt me down. And I literally walked past the security guards as they rushed it.
Nobody detected you and went to find you. That…just isn’t a thing. Fare evasion here in the UK is handled by checking tickets. I don’t know what you saw, but it wasn’t what you thought it was
On San Francisco MUNI broken machines mean rides are free. It was a common policy in the States taken advantage by a penny protest in the mid 20th century, in which a fare increase by pennies was responded to by riders paying exclusively in pennies, quickly jamming the machines.
DDG won’t find it since Daniel Penny recently killed someone in NYC by choke hold in the subway system, so all the news is about that.
Wow guess we need the lemmy equivalent of /r/thathappened now.