[Gllug] Oyster cards vulnerable?

[Nix]

On 30 Jan 2008, David Damerell spake thusly:

> On Wednesday, 30 Jan 2008, Nix wrote:
>>The way to fix *that* is not to wave the card *over* the reader. Slap it
>>face-down on the reader and it triggers instantly. (I keep mine in the
>>plastic sleeve that came with my WAGN-as-was season ticket.)
>
> I thought everyone knew that - guess not.

I suspect these are dark secrets of the commuter ;) (or frequent
traveller, anyway, so London residents probably count too).

>>What? The thing has to suck the ticket in and spit it out. That takes a
>>couple of seconds *minimum*,
>
> With good technique you can approach with arm extended and grab the
> ticket as it emerges without really slowing down, albeit I think the
> new machines are slower.

I must walk faster than you (but then I walk faster than 99% of the
people I pass on the street --- er, actually, if I pass them I must be
walking faster than them. You know what I mean.)

The old ticket machines required me to slow down. The new ones require a
dead stop :/

>                           Doesn't help with the mag stripe not working,
> of course, which I used to reckon was a dead cert with a Travelcard on
> a sweaty day...

Also with e.g. my rail season ticket. Two scans per day, 200+ days...

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