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USB Train Tickets Arrive In France

Started by dponce80 · 10 months ago

By Jonathan Kimak
SNCF, a railway company in France, is trying out some new tickets. The tickets are part RFID, which was already a standard on France’s railway ticketing system, and USB. The USB portion of the ticket allows users to plug the small thumb drive into their PC ... Continue reading »

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poppples
10 months ago

Quote "SNCF, a railway company in France [...]"
To be precise, SNCF (Société nationale de chemin de fer, Railway National Company) is the only one one - state owned - company. The market will soon be open for competition, but so far it's the only one we have. And for information, it works better than in England - where competition is open - and is cheaper.

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Mr. Picky
10 months ago

That isn't an SNCF train - It's a Shinkansen (Japanese bullet train).

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Frankie
10 months ago

Yeppe. it looks like a series 300 (or another Hikari) who runs from Tokyo trough Osaka to Hiroshima...

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hojo
10 months ago

Seems like any system which uses the device itself to store value is susceptible to hackage.

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Schmierwurst
10 months ago

And to complete correction, trains in France (Germany, Switzerland,...) don't smell "unique". Not comparable to public transportation in North America.

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