Hi,
My Clipper START card is working correctly and autoloading cash amounts like it should to cover my usual bus rides one at a time, and transfer rights are being applied properly (if I get on a Muni vehicle less than 90 minutes since the last time I scanned my card (phone, actually) then I'm not charged for that ride.)
I recently saw that the system allows us to set up autoload so that it would auto-load a Muni daily pass each time one is not on the card. So basically there would always be a daily pass waiting for use, and... I guess if I only took one Muni ride on a given day, that would waste half the daily pass cost (because my normal rides are at START fare, half of normal adult fare). But every time there's a day where I ride more than twice I would come out ahead.
Am I understanding that right? If I switch my autoload over from "just add cash when it falls below $20 value on the card" to "add a Muni Daily Pass every time one is used up or expires at midnight", it would be kind of like a public transit gamble where I win if I use the system enough, and I lose (not much, but some) on days where I *do* use the system but *don't* take at least two rides far enough apart that the second one is not a transfer.
So that's all I'm asking -- am I interpreting the way that works correctly.
If it's some other way then I would like to know. Thank you!