contactless cards

eDicky

macman wrote: »

RG2015 wrote: »

And, without Oyster or contactless, he won't be able to use London buses at all.

He will, for free, if he has an over 60s bus pass from his local council.

Perhaps there's a bus from St Pancras to Ealing..?

Gers

EachPenny wrote: »

Yes, and that's part of the problem. If you have more than one card in your wallet then the contactless system doesn't know which one to use, so the charge will be applied randomly to one of the cards - maybe not the one you intended. As per IR's comment, if you are doing this on the Oyster system it can get very expensive. If the different touch-in touch-outs are recorded to different cards you end up with lots of incomplete journeys.

Thanks for the reply - I understand that if more than one contactless card is in a wallet then it's difficult. I had in mind more of having the card on it's own in a little wallet, just like a bus pass which works without it being taken out of the wallet.

EachPenny

Gers wrote: »

I had in mind more of having the card on it's own in a little wallet

Yes, they work fine, in fact when first launched the Oyster cards came with a free matching plastic wallet

The problem is whatever the card is in, even its own wallet, the need to carry it in a way which it is accessible to quickly touch in and out is not a way which reduces the risk of it being lost or stolen - especially in crowded locations with people moving around rapidly and bumping in to you all the time.

So my choice is to minimise the risk by carrying a card (Oyster) which is effectively disposable and only has limited value - but I'd still be upset if I lost mine!

The answer of course is to have the chip embedded in a body-part, like your hand, so no risk of it getting lost, and always easy to find

alanq

macman wrote: »

He will, for free, if he has an over 60s bus pass from his local council.

The London Over-60 "bus pass" is a special Oyster card valid only for travel in London.

In England outside of London there are few places with Over-60s bus passes. Under the English Concessionary Travel Scheme passes are only issued when a person (of whatever gender) reaches women's state pension age.

QQuaver

EachPenny wrote: »

The answer of course is to have the chip embedded in a body-part, like your hand, so no risk of it getting lost, and always easy to find

No way! :shocked:

RG2015

eDicky wrote: »

He will, for free, if he has an over 60s bus pass from his local council.

Perhaps there's a bus from St Pancras to Ealing..?

Does this apply to over 60s living outside London?

EachPenny

QQuaver wrote: »

No way! :shocked:

I was only jesting... at least I think I was.

But I'm sure someone in a bank tech department somewhere has pointed out if we can do it to our pets then why not to humans?

EachPenny

RG2015 wrote: »

Does this apply to over 60s living outside London?

Yes, from the TfL website -

Concessionary bus passes from outside London

If you're from outside London and have a bus pass issued by another English council, you can use it, at any time, to travel free on buses displaying the red roundel.

Gers

EachPenny wrote: »

I was only jesting... at least I think I was.

But I'm sure someone in a bank tech department somewhere has pointed out if we can do it to our pets then why not to humans?

http://www.popsci.com/my-boring-cyborg-implant


And thanks for clarifying about the single contactless card in a wallet. I suppose having this carried next to another contactless card may keep both secure, still going to try it in my local shop this week.

parking_question_chap

Why does it matter exactly?

And why the need to force your opinion on him?

Let him be.