Nice so you don’t have to floor it to make a yellow or Kickstart your air-cooled motorcycle when a long red turns green.

The timing is off by 3 seconds to stop people from going just before it turns green. So people go 4 seconds early.

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    Just ordered a taxi in Beijing, a 1 tier city, and were 1st timer surprised to watch amap show my taxi wait for the countdown and then approaching me (they only wait for green at big crossings, btw). I also used amap to book the ride. Not really sure how useful it is for getting a ride, but pretty novel to watch.

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      How do you like Beijing? The scale is kinda insane. “OH I’ll just take the subway” and its like 5 hours.

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      I use didi when I need to book a ride, but that’s almost never given how ubiquitous and cheap meituan ebikes or scooters are, when subways, trains, and buses fail me.

      You pay like 2 dollars and then you can ride yellow escooters for 15 cents for 20 minutes for 10 days or bicycles literally free for a month. Only works for the city you buy it in btw.

      Some buses don’t come up in amap btw, I have to ask around.

      Transnational trains don’t show up in any app, you have to book them at the station they depart from, cash only.