You can argue that it's not the "fault" of mass transit, but anyway you don't have to plan as much for taking an Uber, giving it an advantage over the bus.

The typeface they used and can be seen in the screenshot at the end of the article makes the schwa look almost like a regular a.

It'd be easier if that's just factored into the price.

I kinda prefer to put cash in someone's hand. That way companies with stellar labor practices like Uber cannot mess with their other payment.

Used to be normal in Denmark, but it's so much easier to prepay.

The comment has since been edited to show 'Denmark' instead.

I wouldn't wanna let it probe 'rm' :D

Perhaps the probing could happen in a VM / container image which would reset after each invocation.

This is supposed to be contrasted with an operator asking for the credit card digits manually, leaving room for them to scribble down the card number.

The DTMF system is so that the computer receives the card number directly. Of course that could be done with speech recognition as well.

And in any case, as others have pointed out, a phone connection is not a secured line.

But then again, a credit card fraud incident isn't the end of the world either. So maybe the risk is acceptable.

What an odd video!

Anecdotally, FindFace found my Russian friend's VK.com profile (amongst many millions of such profiles) as the number one hit after I took a picture of her in a bar and submitted it to their face recognition service.

I think your example is different to this scenario as your friend will have submitted many pics to VK so they have decent training set for her face.

Whereas the DMV only has 1 picture of a suspect so it will result in more false positives.

Oh, I see - I take my comment back then :-)