Passengers on the London Tube barely escaped with their lives when a defective train with no driver broke away and sped through six stations without stopping. Circle around and hear the harrowing tale of London’s ghost train of death.
The world’s most exclusive Subway is also cooler than you’d ever thought Subway could be: Fully-functioning, inside a shipping container, delivering sandwiches up and down the full height of the Ground Zero construction – soon to top 100 storeys.
I ride on one of these every day, and I had no idea how they were made. They’re tested in an artificial thunderstorm in Brazil! All to keep things quiet while hobos sleep. So thoughtful. [National Geographic via GadgetLab]
Ah, Sydney’s CityRail, I hate you for your expensive fares, old trains and inability to stick to your own timetable.
At last, your claims of knowing New York’s subway system “like the back of your hand” will be more than just boasting (OK, lying).
Messing with ads in subways is becoming an artform, but this “Photoshopping” of ads in Berlin takes things to the next level by creating a Photoshop interface with stickers. This is pitch-perfect adbusting right here.
Some Beijing man had to learn the hard way that Flick Bowling on the iPhone is probably not the best game to play in public… especially inside public transport. Yowch, expensive lesson. [Youku Buzz]
“Want free subway rides for life?” teased the description of the talk “Anatomy of a Subway Hack” by three MIT students at DefCon this past weekend, where they planned to explain security flaws in the payment system for Boston’s T subway. Live! They were going to demo how they cracked the system’s CharlieCard smartcards and the mag-stripe on its paper CharlieTickets and offer up open source tools they made while conducting their research, among other gaping holes. Apparently, however, that “constitutes a threat to public health or safety,” and “affects a computer system used by a government agency for national security purposes.”
