Millions of people are just visitors to NY, and tourists (like me) visit irregularly enough to not keep that card between visits. They will not expect the vendi

Millions of people are just visitors to NY, and tourists (like me) visit irregularly enough to not keep that card between visits. They will not expect the vending machine to give you an amount that does not divide evenly in rides, because that is not how these machines typically behave. I think it's fair to call that a dark pattern, especially for a public service, it is simply a hidden tax for tourists.