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Someone Out There IS Thinking!

By Patrick

I'm not exactly Cell Phone Guy (most days I don't even carry it with me), but I think this idea is flippin' cool:

BART is beginning a four month test of near-field technology for ticket sales. If successful, it would allow people to pay for a ticket automatically as their phone passes through the gate. No more standing in line at the ticket dispenser, nor more dealing with Petition Guy as he solicits your signature in said line, Guitar Player Guy as he vies with Petition Guy for your attention, and no more paying 4.00 for that 3.40 ride.

Of course, it could guarantee a getaway for Mugger Guy who grabs your phone and sprints for the BART station . . .

Anyway, you might not be as thrilled as me [insert paranoid privacy concern here], but convince is always a selling point with me, and I hope the project works as well as planned.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on January 29, 2008 (boomark / email).