On 9/11/2019 6:40 PM, John B. wrote:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:32:49 -0700 (PDT), Sir Ridesalot
wrote:
On Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:22:18 UTC-4, John B. wrote:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:42:30 -0400, Duane
wrote:
On 11/09/2019 12:46 a.m., Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Wednesday, 11 September 2019 00:01:43 UTC-4, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:05:29 -0700 (PDT), pH wrote:
I wonder if there's a market for a "Google Glass" type of thing
w/ a back-facing camera displayed on a forward screen full time.
Hmm.
pH in Aptos
Rear view bicycle cameras already exist:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bicycle+rear+view+camera&tbm=isch
You might also consider an automotive dashboard camera, which usually
has a rear view camera included.
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A good rear-view camera can really help if this happens. Frank will say the bicyclist should have been lane center but I don't think that would have helped in this case.
youtube.com/watch?v=QYMKp71vW-I
Cheers
My riding buddy, the paramedic installed a go pro on his bike for his
commute. He was getting tailgated, close passes etc. He planned to use
it to report idiots to his buddies at the police station. But found
that driver stopped most of the bull**** behavior. He thinks it's the
camera. So maybe just a fake camera would help? g
There was a "study" done in England (I think) that found the absolute
best defense against aggressive autos was a jacket with "POLICE"
printed on the back :-)
Frank lives in Ohio which is devoid of much of a cycling presence. When
cyclists are unique occurrences that astound and confound the unwashed
masses perhaps they are too shocked to pass and this gives him the
impression that he is in fact controlling the road. Seems to also work
on cops, preventing them from ticketing him for impeding.
Here in Montreal, it's a bit different. C
https://globalnews.ca/news/5760125/m...-tickets-2018/
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cheers,
John B.
That'd get you charged with impersonating a police officer. LOL
Cheers
Although that isn't the point the test actually misspelled "police" on
the jackets for that reason.
The point of the study was, of course, to determine whether most
autos are aware of what is going on the highway act in response to
actual conditions.
Which the study deemed was the fact.
For example the study found that cars gave a bicycle much more room
when passing when the rider was wearing his jacket than when the same
rider was not wearing his jacket.
On another forum, a person posted that he seemed to get much more abuse
from motorists when he was decked out in sport cycling garb compared to
when he rode in normal clothing.
I can't say I've noticed that, personally, but I can imagine some
drivers might be triggered by certain stereotypes.
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