Recently I've been hearing more and more about these "Go cards" that are to be used on public transport. For those that are blissfully unaware, Go cards work on micro chip technology and utilises magnets. The website claims that the technology is tamper proof and will cut boarding times, allowing the bus/ferry/train to get to its destination earlier. From experience, any card (mainly Tekken in my example) that requires the use of magnets can be tampered and have the data corrupted, rendering the system to become faulty.
That's not the only problem, another one is that this technology has only been released here recently. Other places such as Hong Kong have had this technology for YEARS and when I say YEARS I mean, I saw this technology after grade 9 YEARS. Of course, living in the great land that we call Australia there is MORE to the fine print. Not only is the technology new, it's not 100% finished either. There have been several instances where a person has had to swipe their card over 10 times just for it to register, this has happened to my friend and her first swipe didn't register whereas her 2nd swipe did. For those that don't know what happens to those that try to cheat the system by swiping only once, the system will deduct an additional fee (not sure what it is). Very effective considering the system itself isn't complete.
What really ticks me off is that this reflects the technological situation of Australia. Why does Australia SUCK when it comes to technology and get the short end of the stick? Aren't we a developed nation? Isn't our economy considered to be a lot better now? Even better news: Kevin Rudd is planning to advance our technology by filtering our internet; hooray for idiotic right wing-ism.
PS: To those that didn't understand my previous post, one of my relatives might have cancer. I just didn't feel very happy at the time and wanted to get a lot out. Thanks to those that comforted me =)
4 comments:
It's funny that you bring up HK's Octopus card and say that Australia's technology sucks.
Australia INVENTED HK's whole transit card system.
In relation to what we talked about before, Go cards actually DO use radio frequencies (similar to the ones used in HK). The cards ARE actually 'tamper proof' because they can only be accessed by machines connected to the GO network.
so stupid those things. COMPARED TO HK THEY ARE just .... gay =)
We may have developed the system, but how come it's taken so long to have it implemented? That's what I dislike the most, everything takes fucking ages.
Nigger What?
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