This worked perfectly, and for your reference, my loop was a long (5 minute) boot loop.

Apple logo, then Apple with spinning flower thing , flower things stops, reboot, repeat forever…

Here is what I did to get into this problem (i think) … I did change my partition size when I PWN’d, I went to Erase All Content and Settings, it recovered into the reboot boot described.

In the case you describe, deaf and blind people make up a very small percentage of the overall bus using population. Why not create small handheld devices which vibrate on approach to a particular stop? Or reuse existing devices such as mobile phones.

For custom built devices, each bus could have half a dozen and you’d request it from the driver when you get on (also telling him which stop you’d like and the device can be programmed to that particular stop). When the device buzzes, you get up and go to the driver to return your device and get off. This also covers edge edge cases where the bus breaks down or whatever since the driver could then inform the person what’s going on.

Devices like that are cheap to make, in fact so much so perhaps TFL could give them away for free to eligible people.

In my opinion, the mistake that’s being made is that the interface (announcements) is being designed for the minorities of users, rather than the majority.

I agree that this data should be free. It’s meant to be for public, so why not give it to public. I had a few ideas of my own on how to use this data and I’d love to find a way of obtaining it without paying a fee (I already paid it by the means of tax and ticket fares).

With regards to announcements, it’s a bit more complicated. There are blind people and deaf people who use public transport. It has to be accessible by everyone, so the idea is to provide the information to these people in as many ways as possible. It can be intrusive, of course, but if you can find a better way of delivering this information to everybody, it would be interesting to know your thouts on cheap and efficient ways of doing this.

Enjoy!

ps: not a bad post either.