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my fellow germericans… if elected as your bundespräsident, i will make db use ai technology to accurately predict in advance when your train will be delayed, so you can get out of bed an hour later. together, we'll make germany late agai— i mean early
you believe that ice must be destroyed? offenbar stimmt die deutsche bahn aktiengesellschaft zu
one of my favourite parts of the deutsche bahn experience (trademark protected in germany) is when your train is delayed by 30 minutes because the track is blocked, and 30 minutes will come and go without any train, and without an updated time, so you panic thinking you missed it
eventually like five or ten minutes after the new time, you'll get informed of the new new time.
this is such a common experience you'd think, hope, they would have a better procedure for it. e.g. “train is delayed by at least thirty minutes, await further information”
my train was only 72 minutes delayed! an auspicious number. they should sell lottery tickets based on how many minutes delayed your train is. big prizes only with three digits
finally in copenhagen only 109 minutes late. vi er såååå tilbage
@saagar are you sure
@hikari I was at a DB station the other day and my ÖBB train was marked as 30 minutes late on the board. I panicked when the ÖBB app train tracker showed the train pulling out of the platform and heading off, but that seems to have been be a complete fiction, made up because DB don’t share any live running data with ÖBB. (I really want RealTimeTrain.co.uk for Europe; it’s one of the few things the UK actually does well.)
@hikari be careful what you wish for. Whenever I see that a train is late in the db navigator app and accommodate for the extra time, the train somehow magically manages to catch up on it's schedule and is gone as soon as I arrive
@KurisuVanEdge yes :(
they need to make the delay a promise after a certain point tbh
@hikari I love it when my S-Bahn is late before I even board it, because then my journey might take 4 minutes less than scheduled 😊
(or it might acquire 40 minutes of additional delay! it’s a miracle DB isn’t required to apply for a gambling license)
@hikari Had a DB experience when going back to Malmö from Hamburg. Sure the train was not operated by DB but still, it's in operating in DB territory so.
So, me and my partner are waiting on the train in Hamburg. Train is predicted to be delayed 30 minutes, and no platform is assigned to it. So, we wait. And then suddenly it's assigned a platform and it arrives a minute later, only a minute or two after it's planned arrival time. It was however 30 minutes late to leave Hamburg.