New technology in buses
New technology in buses
(15 Sep 2019, 4:42 pm)AdrianThe tracking on some of them higher rated apps on that list are dire from my experiences (particularly Borders Buses, EYMS and Transdev Go which are pretty much the same) usually open it and if nothing is there at the exact point you are you have little luck at finding the bus on the app, zoom out and nothing appears and you get loss of connection message pop up, gave up using those three for that and often just look on BusTimes if I want to locate a particular bus on a certain route.
Doesn't surprise me. I've yet to find a really good app yet. Most of the time I just don't trust them, as they don't fill me with confidence.
Out of the two I really use:
I've been reporting bugs in Arriva's app for over 18 months now, to no avail. Issues with phantom buses being shown as 'tracked', when they've yet to start that trip.
I've also reported data issues with GNE's app several times, also to no avail. Issues with incorrect service numbers showing, e.g. '40BD' in Durham, and also issues that the time until the bus arrives differs from Google Maps. The latter is correct, whereas the app commonly jumps from say 8 minutes to 'due'
(15 Sep 2019, 4:42 pm)AdrianThe tracking on some of them higher rated apps on that list are dire from my experiences (particularly Borders Buses, EYMS and Transdev Go which are pretty much the same) usually open it and if nothing is there at the exact point you are you have little luck at finding the bus on the app, zoom out and nothing appears and you get loss of connection message pop up, gave up using those three for that and often just look on BusTimes if I want to locate a particular bus on a certain route.
Doesn't surprise me. I've yet to find a really good app yet. Most of the time I just don't trust them, as they don't fill me with confidence.
Out of the two I really use:
I've been reporting bugs in Arriva's app for over 18 months now, to no avail. Issues with phantom buses being shown as 'tracked', when they've yet to start that trip.
I've also reported data issues with GNE's app several times, also to no avail. Issues with incorrect service numbers showing, e.g. '40BD' in Durham, and also issues that the time until the bus arrives differs from Google Maps. The latter is correct, whereas the app commonly jumps from say 8 minutes to 'due'
