GPS is online with Brooklyn buses, and lines already being regulated by "big brother" in the Command Center.
We have no timepoints on the 44SBS (between Flushing Av and Flatbush/Nostrand), but apparently I was about 5 minutes ahead, and was called at Newkirk Av & Nostrand a few days ago and was told to kill time at the stand, but I wind up just blowing like a minute and kept it pushing because of the traffic ahead at Flatbush Junction (Flatbush/Nostrand/Glenwoood section). By the time I got through, I was on time at the Junction (mid-timepoint).
So yea.. it's real.