@jonossaseuraava @isa @hj
>ANC headphones
If you're visiting a foreign place, and use headphones to drown out important context clues that help guide you, that's your problem, not mine.

>not speaking the language
Not that big of a problem. The PA system is pretty simple, and it's easy to understand which is the next station's name, and what is just the "the next station is...." part of the announcement.
And you usually find metro maps in each cart, so it's easy to match the name you hear on the PA with what you see on the map. Technically you can manage without even the PA by looking at the map and counting out the stops, but you need to be very careful to make sure you're going in the right direction.

@alyx @jonossaseuraava @isa good luck matching name of station with map in china

@hj @isa @jonossaseuraava
Sure, but this is Romania, not China. Our letters are perfectly legible.

@alyx @isa @jonossaseuraava for people who now latin script :^)

@hj @isa @jonossaseuraava
Which is literally everyone that matters.

@hj @alyx @isa what if pa system plain broken. No workki. Silebxe

@jonossaseuraava @alyx @isa doesn't matter, street art is more important than accessibility

@hj @isa @jonossaseuraava
What isn't more important that accessibility?

@hj @isa @jonossaseuraava
>Sometimes PA is plain wrong
If you guys can't even get a PA system right, I feel sorry for you.

@alyx @isa @jonossaseuraava nah it's just that driver is irresponsible and skips a station or pushes button twice by accident

@hj @isa @jonossaseuraava
Not gonna pretend I know how our metro's PA system works, but I can tell you I've never had the experience where it got a station wrong. If I were to guess, I'd say it was automated in some way, and not based on the whims of a driver pushing a button.

@hj @alyx @isa @jonossaseuraava Sounds like a quite broken system, the metro probably already knows where it is on the line.

@lanodan @alyx @isa @jonossaseuraava it depends, soviet metro used several different versions of the PA system, some I think used radio where station would broadcast PA announcement to train as it arrives, but most later ones were different forms of casette tape like devices, from actual casette tapes to glorified mp3 players.

Metro train most often does not know where it is on the line, those systems are a bit rare. Remember that trains have more electrics than they do electronics, and they date to 1940s-1950s, transistors weren't widespread back then, so "where i am on the line" system just wasn't possible, i mean the best and most widespread system that IS put into place is speed regulation, which lets train know "what speed limit is on this segment", and that only happened around 1960s.

I guess some systems like st. petersburg metro does have this advanced stuff like letting train know where it is, auto-drive for precise stopping (for "horizontal elevator" type stations) and stuff, but those are more of an exception than rule. Only in recent years (2010s?) they added a (better) precise stopping electronics system.

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@alyx @hj @isa the city next to our capital is literally called ass poo

@lanodan @isa @jonossaseuraava @hj
We have it in the "newer" carts. The ones in the pictures are ancient, from the communist era.
Mind you, the "new" carts aren't exactly new either, they must be at least 20-25 years old too.

@alyx @isa @jonossaseuraava @hj Interesting, here they managed to add displays, but well it's similarly at 20~25 years max since that's the age of the line.

@lanodan @alyx @isa @jonossaseuraava oh yeah and those displays are also sorta tied to the PA system, i mean the whole "train knows where it's at" system is most often dependent on driver hitting "next announcement" button in the cab, which advances the "playlist" both of announcments and the "where train's at rn" list.