[Gllug] Oyster cards vulnerable?

[Holger Duerer]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin A Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org> writes:

    Martin> Martin A. Brooks wrote:
    >> Nix wrote:
    >> 
    >>> There was another very important reason: it hugely improves
    >>> flow around ticket barriers if most people use Oyster, because
    >>> it takes a fraction of the time to validate the card as it
    >>> does to feed a ticket through.  (Normally about a fifth as
    >>> long.)
    >>> 
    >> 
    >> You've said this before, and you didn't produce any kind of
    >> evidence to support this statistic then.  Can you do so now?
    >> 
    >> If anything, I think Oyster makes things faster, no ticket
    >> orientation problems, for a start.

    Martin> Oh, duh. I misread, sorry.  We are in fact agreeing
    Martin> mostly.  I think Oyster _is_ faster, but I wouldn't say
    Martin> you can get 5 Oysters through a barrier in the same time
    Martin> it takes one paper ticket user.

That's not what he said.  He said the scanning was 5 times as fast.
But I guess your misunderstanding shows how irrelevant that speed
improvement would be.  Even if the machine could scan a card in a
nanosecond the human being would still require the split second or so
to pass the gate.  And the mechanical gates are probably the slowest
thing in the system.

      Holger
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