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What you are describing is exactly all the problems with gates. Having them open-by-default improves somewhat. Having 100ms less reading time improves nothing.
by AshamedCaptain 1y ago
What you are describing is exactly all the problems with gates. Having them open-by-default improves somewhat. Having 100ms less reading time improves nothing. You are still limited by the speed of everyone else (cultural aspects are irrelevant as they are not improved by reader tech). If you want to improve entry throughput, have _no gate at all_ so that people do not have to bottleneck there. If you really have to put a validator, put it elsewhere.
- lazide 1y agoAnd where would you put it? Anywhere you can think of would just be another (usually narrower) bottleneck. In most stations, every available inch of width is used for these ‘gates’, and people move at a walking pace through them except for when people screw up. It’s a remarkably effective system.
- AshamedCaptain 1y agoSee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014412 to merge discussions.
- lazide 1y agoIt doesn’t work in high traffic areas, because the tap areas become impossible to get to if people actually use them - same bottle neck problem. On busses they are de-facto soft gates, assuming the bus driver yells at you if you don’t use it - which often they do. And why would they give up that sweet sweet rush hour revenue?