November 20, 2024

Transit App Can Now Predict Underground Location Without GPS

From blog.transitapp.com:

Thanks to our clever engineering, we can now predict your location in a subway tunnel using your phone’s vibration signature.

Amazing. I don’t get a chance to travel by subway as much a as I like, but will totally download Transit to my next metropolis visit. To try:

Easy: just find yourself an underground train, open Transit, start a trip with GO, and watch the stations tick down, one-by-one! We’ve helped riders detect 1.5 million underground stations across ~400,000 trips during our initial tests.


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