Cool. But I will still skip my stop when I am half sleep.
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Wow, just like the Tokyo metro.
I was on the Blue line today and didnāt see these newfangled things
I donāt like it.
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Too bad. Theyāre here to stay. 
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I donāt like the LCD-ification of everything. Theyāre complex to build, expensive to build and fail far faster and easier than LED matrices.
The buses are doing this and half the time either the LCD is dead, the LCD has stuck/dead pixels or lines or sections, the OS failed to boot, the software failed to boot and the goddamn thing is blocking the marquee so I canāt see it.
On the LED matrix, theyāre made up of many individual parts, so when one fails, you donāt need to replace the whole assembly. Itās simple and cheap to repair. This isnāt the case with LCD as the entire assembly needs to be replaced. This will cost everyone money so that a fancier, yet inferior tech can fail more often.
These things are a solution looking for a problem and are there just to impress. I am going to be writing a complaint.
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I miss this.
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Usually not a problem if that money goes to a few chosen pockets.
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Theyāre manufactured locally, by Innolux.
I get that, theyāre still more complex. If any one part of an LCD fails, the entire assembly needs to be replaced and itās not cheap! When LCDs can be replaced for less than $100 then Iād say sureā¦have at it.
An LED matrix is made of many replaceable sections and any one section can be repaired and replaced with amateur soldering tools for no more than $100, the price of a meal.
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Two old men got on the MRT yesterday. One was more sprightly than the other and hurried on to an empty chair, but put his hat on another empty seat to secure the spot for his slow hobbling friend.
It was sweet, but also annoying because I had my eye on the empty chair.
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Iām always amazed by how hobbling seniors all of a sudden become sprightly whenever they see an empty seat. In Taiwan, buses and the MRT are the elixir of life.
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If we put a blue chair at the end of every olympic event, weād monopolise all of the golds in the olympics.
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Iām on the Blue line right now and cannot see them.
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Itās only on the Pikachu train. Iāve only boarded it once since it was introduced, and I ride it a lot. I think itās still on trial runs before they overhaul the entire system.
Wanna help me complain?
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Yea I get that
However there may be another cost component. Notice where the ad normally goes is replaced by a screen too.
That means no cost to print ads, paying someone to put them in, or updating them, etc.
Now it can all be done at the push of a button.
When you add this all up this could save millions.
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Hardly. Print is cheap and reliable.
It isnāt just the cost of print, itās also paying a group of people to put the new ad on, take off the old one, and disposing of the old ones too (in accordance to relevant environmental laws too).
So using LCD screens where new ads can be updated at the press of a button, it saves a lot of money.
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Not to mention the flexibility and dynamic of modern ads