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TfL acknowledges contactless technology risk
On 26/06/2014 16:31, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:20:47 on Thu, 26 Jun 2014, tim..... remarked: It certainly seems reasonable that the reader should be "intelligent" and look for: Freedom pass Oyster with relevant season Oyster with PAYG balance before randomly selecting debiting your CC Even if it can't (for whatever technical reason TfL can think of) actually intelligently charge the correct card from the above list , it should certainly decide not to charge the CC if one of the others is found. It can't, and doesn't, I know that it doesn't (that's almost a given) but I don't see that it can't. do all that in the short interval it has available. So extending that window is a worse use of time that having pax stand at the barrier for 30 seconds whilst he fusses about which card to use? The speed of operating gates has always been fundamental for TfL, even though I believe they've had to sacrifice a little to accommodate contactless CCs at all. I myself have noticed that there is a slight delay at the gates when using contactless -- just a little less than a second. Free-standing readers definitely take more time, however -- something along the lines of: "Erm, okay." The same applies with route validators, such as at Stratford. Perhaps that will change over time? |
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