Core77

In Japan, Germany, Brooklyn's Williamsburg and the UK's Brighton, as in countless places around the world, there are helpful little LEDs at the subway or bus stops telling you how many minutes there are until the next vehicle arrives. This is immensely helpful as you can decide whether you've got time to blurt out an important phone message, grab joe to-go or dig through your bag for that unfinished Sudoku that's been nagging you.

Why doesn't every mass transit stop in, say, every US city have one of these "time left" LEDs? Since local governments already have nerve centers tracking these vehicles, why can't we riders have the info?

No, instead we get local governments doing other things with their time--but Domino's Pizza now provides a tracking service. Here, folks, are American priorities at their finest: We can't tell you how long it'll take you to get to work, but we can darn sure let you know that your Crunchy Thin Crust is stuck in traffic on the 405.

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