If I told you that there was a city in America that had luxurious, high-tech public transportation, that was fueled by something super futuristic, like Postitive thoughts, where would you bet that it was?
Maybe San Francisco, since it’s essentially the home of Silicon Valley? Nope. Nowhere has something that futuristic yet, but SF is the FURTHEST from it.
According to a new report, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has agreed to shell out $212 MILLION to update the technology of its light rail, so that it doesn’t require FLOPPY DISKS.
The current system has required five-inch floppy disks since 1998, when it was installed. The trains use floppy disks for loading software that controls the central servers. (And YOU were annoyed 10 years ago, when laptops stopped having CD drives.)
The $212 million will eventually lead to an updated train control system, the same thing that’s used to power modern transportation in more than 50 countries, like Japan’s bullet train. But the overhaul will take up to 10 YEARS.
