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It explicitly talks about this in the article where he talks about how they try to predict the bus will arrive earlier rather than later. In the 12-30 minute bu
by why_only_15 8y ago
It explicitly talks about this in the article where he talks about how they try to predict the bus will arrive earlier rather than later. In the 12-30 minute bucket, "12% of weekday predictions were up to 4 minutes early, 71% were up to 6 minutes late, and 17% were outside both of those windows".
- tzs 8y agoSo they are weighting it to under-predict lateness, which will reduce the chances someone misses the bus by arriving at the stop at the predicted time, it seems.