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t1_j0yuwq1 wrote

How full the train is. One is "not very full" and three of them mean "very full".

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t1_j0z1ioy wrote

Does none of them mean it's a "g-g-g-g-ghost train"?

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t1_j108sni wrote

Me: "Excuse me, is this an Orange Line train to New Carrollton?"

Old Woman Rider: "On this very night, ten years ago, along this very stretch of track in a dense fog just like this... I saw the worst accident I ever seen. There was this sound, like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building..."

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OP t1_j11g63b wrote

Tell ‘em Large Marge sent ya…

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t1_j11ii7u wrote

It sounded just like THIS *sound of screeching, ablaze Metro train*

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t1_j0z7yc7 wrote

Indeed, it does. But no need to fear. They're all friendly ghosts, like Casper.

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t1_j0zemhc wrote

I'm sure that there are people that knew former Secretary of Defense Weinberger and view him in a friendly light, but I don't think the majority of the world view him so favorably. I definitely wouldn't want to be in a metro car with his spectral form.

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t1_j0zgf8c wrote

Just like one of the Vindicators in Rick and Morty

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t1_j0z9bb4 wrote

Ok that’s actually a pretty cool feature that I didn’t even know I wanted until now

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t1_j0zmknn wrote

Google Maps has been showing it for a while. I suspect it is based on localization data from smartphones.

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t1_j0zueb4 wrote

It’s probably the opposite - Google pulls the data from the WMATA API.

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t1_j115eum wrote

I don't see how WMATA knows how full the train cars are though without seeing a bunch of phones moving together from station to station.

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t1_j11fuwe wrote

Embedded weight scale would probably do it. Or even a basic AI looking at a video feed. Doesn't need to be on-the-dot perfect after all.

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t1_j11t681 wrote

Google definitely gathers at least some of the data itself, because it lets users input how crowded trains and buses are.

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t1_j10thvo wrote

How can the train tell how full it is versus 1-3? If it stops at a mixed line stop, there's no way to tell if people on the platform get on for that line or who gets off to leave.

Does it judge by overall weight?

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