>“The thing that Uber and Lyft have done that is really revolutionary was just removing some of the transportation anxiety that exists from not knowing whether

>“The thing that Uber and Lyft have done that is really revolutionary was just removing some of the transportation anxiety that exists from not knowing whether you’re going to be able to get a ride, not knowing how long it’s going to take for that ride to get there, not knowing exactly how much it’s going to cost,” he said. If bus operators could make all of this information as transparent as Uber and Lyft do, they’d win more riders. I think up-to-the second awareness of time remaining would be a major improvement to the experience. I know the time remaining is uncertain, but a lot of information exists but is not making its way to the user. Allow me to browse my phone while I wait, without paying attention at all, until I get a notification when the bus is 30s away. If I'm wandering whether to go in the nearby bakery, allow me to see a "best guess" estimate and a "surely won't take less than this much" estimate for the remaining time. For very infrequent routes, allow me to set my alarm clock to X minutes before the "surely won't take less than this much" estimate to the stop near my home, to be evaluated at runtime.