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The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? (2018)

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219 points skadamat | 1 comments | 20 Aug 24 13:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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laweijfmvo ◴[20 Aug 24 15:57 UTC] No.41301202[source]▶
my take away is that if you're lucky enough to live in a place that has such a bus schedule, you can just ignore the schedule and show up whenever you want and only wait 10 minutes. sounds lovely!
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1. was_a_dev ◴[21 Aug 24 08:52 UTC] No.41308247[source]▶
Being able to track a bus via GPS works well like this. It doens't matter if the bus is 20 minutes late, if you can check that the bus is 4 minutes away.

A bit like usnig the metro. You don't know the schedule, you just know the realative time to the next train