This article in Business week is about transportation and cars of the future, and may well come to pass. It just the opposite of what Keith would have.
Cars in the next few years will be able to find the fastest route for the > morning commute as well as order coffee, pay for it and guide the driver to > pick it up. > > This transformation of the auto into a full-service mobile device adds up > to a potential goldmine. Revenue from the data streams and connectivity > components could become a 180 billion-euro ($200 billion) market by 2020, > McKinsey & Co. estimates. That’s a rich target for Apple Inc. and Google > Inc., and automakers are fighting for a claim as well. > http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-06/apple-and-google-tempted-by-cars-that-can-buy-morning-coffee?cmpid=BBD070615_BIZ On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > There is probably an easier way to do it, but lacking a > smart\\\\\spy phone and using Trimet from time to time, I > download to my portable laptop the most recent bus schedules > before I ride transit. I am equidistant between the 54 and > 58 bus lines out here in Beaverton, and it helps to know which > will arrive first. If I take my bicycle I ride to Beaverton > transit center to take the Max, either Red or Blue lines. > > So, I wrote the shell script below, to wget the pdf schedules > for "my" transit lines, and save them as more easily recognized > names, times, and directions. It is not difficult to text edit > the script for other lines, and a better programmer than I could > write a script that writes scripts like this for any arbitrary > set of bus and Max lines. > > Keith > ----------------------- cut here -------------------------- > #!/bin/bash > # Trimet schedule script > mkdir ~/trimet > pushd ~/trimet > # 58 canyon road > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/w/t1058_1.pdf -O wk58e.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/w/t1058_0.pdf -O wk58w.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/s/t1058_1.pdf -O sa58e.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/s/t1058_0.pdf -O sa58w.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/h/t1058_1.pdf -O su58e.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/h/t1058_0.pdf -O su58w.pdf > # 54 beaverton hillsboro highway > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/w/t1054_1.pdf -O wk54e.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/w/t1054_0.pdf -O wk54w.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/s/t1054_1.pdf -O sa54e.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/s/t1054_0.pdf -O sa54w.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/h/t1054_1.pdf -O su54e.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/h/t1054_0.pdf -O su54w.pdf > # Max red line > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/w/t1090_1.pdf -O wkRw.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/w/t1090_0.pdf -O wkRe.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/s/t1090_1.pdf -O saRw.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/s/t1090_0.pdf -O saRe.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/h/t1090_1.pdf -O suRw.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/h/t1090_0.pdf -O suRe.pdf > # Max blue line > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/w/t1100_1.pdf -O wkBw.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/w/t1100_0.pdf -O wkBe.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/s/t1100_1.pdf -O saBw.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/s/t1100_0.pdf -O saBe.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/h/t1100_1.pdf -O suBw.pdf > wget http://trimet.org/schedules/h/t1100_0.pdf -O suBe.pdf > ------------------------ cut here -------------------------- > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- [email protected] www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 P.O. Box 581 Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
