Bus Pas

So, I got the new buss pas. It is an RFID card so you just wave it in front of the receiver on the dash of the bus and it beeps to let you on. You can still pay cash. Those cash readers go down pretty often. I would be upset if the cash reader went down and the bus driver was not charging people paying cash, but was charging people using the RFID system. There are few moving parts in the RFID so it will be more rugged over the long haul I bet. Bastards.

I would be impressed with the technology of the whole RFID thing, but it has been used widely in Japan for like fifteen years. They use it for everything from retail to vending machines. No reason we couldn't do that here. Just don't.