[ulnarkressty]

Oh man, I had this idea a long time ago when I was still commuting to work during sweltering hot summers in trams with no AC. Glad to see someone implemented it.

If you want to take it to the next level, use GIS information to account for building shadows and waiting times in stations and at traffic lights.

I just started using the metro instead :)

[Moru]

I never got the idea because our busses had a sort of plastic bar tied to some plastic fabric that you could pull down over the windows. Worked pretty well for blocking the sun. Ofcourse this was way before internet became popular so I guess the ancient knowledge has been lost to humanity by now. The long distance busses also had some sort of air cooling function that they sometimes started up if it was a very warm day.

Todays busses don't even have heating in the winter. If I can't bike, I'm taking the car nowadays. Can't sit in a bus when it's -20 C outdoors and -18 indoors.

:-)

[swores]

> Todays busses don't even have heating in the winter

Reminder that not all busses are the same, and your experience is extremely localised to you - even different bus companies (or bus models used by a single company) in the same city can be completely different, yet alone different parts of the country, yet alone different countries.

Near me, for example, pretty much all busses have heating for the winter, and maybe half (random estimate) have AC for during hot weather while the other half just have windows/vents to open or shut.

[Moru]

Yes, they have heating. Does it work? Yes, seldom. It's even on the news now and then. This area is known for being very cold in winter and working heating never was a problem when I was in school. Now however it seems to be a big problem.

[swores]

I wasn't suggesting you were wrong to define your local busses as not having (working) heating :)

Just that I have no idea where in the world your local busses are, and that you were speaking as if your experience was true of busses everywhere.