VIDEO: Take a Tour of Cisco’s Green “Bus of the Future”
The Who sang about the “Magic Bus,” and while the bus unveiled yesterday in San Francisco at Cisco’s Connected Urban Development conference isn’t magic, the San Francisco Chronicle called it “the bus of the future.”
The bus is a joint project between the city of San Francisco (where we got our name!) and Cisco. The bus is a hybrid (look at all the batteries on top of the bus) and the technology and “green” goal is to provide wireless internet access (Cisco equipment, of course) and other services on the bus to increase ridership. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is quoted in the Chronicle article saying, “This is a smart bus in every way, shape and form. You can download music, you can play video games. It’s a bus where you are connected. It’s constantly generating information about your connection to the rest of the Muni system.”
So, we invite you to take a technology tour of the bus with Cisco’s Dave Evans (Chief Technologist of our Internet Business Solutions Group) and also hear from Muni driver Johnny Mathis (yes, that’s his real name) about why he thinks riders will like this bus.
Posted by John Earnhardt at 04:02PM PST
Jim Strasbaugh Feb 26, 2008
Could a service be added so that folks using their laptops on the bus can receive a popup notification when their stop is approaching?