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Why is the live data wrong? Why is it called live data, then? HH

For example, here in Prague, trams always arrives on time schedule or few minutes after that. (you can wait 2minutes lol)

Also all of our public transport has publicly accessible GPS tracking. Buses are more off of the time schedule, but you can check the GPS and compute the live time.

And subway doesn't make sense to track, since it arrives every few minutes at any station.



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Ha! I should have specified, I’m in the US- I think it’s a large number of factors that ultimately boil down to “there’s no incentive to be accurate” our buses are often 15-30 minutes late.

I don’t think this is very typical, but I have even had a bus driver stop mid route, say “this is as far as I’m going today”, kick everybody off, and drive away


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