[*BCM*] GPS for Bikes

[Jim Leonard]

People are talking about this being implemented at a radio layer or
communicating your position to whereever etc.  What I was envisioning 
was using radar or somesuch to detect moving objects and then use the
already in place gps systems to announce that you were approaching a 
very slow moving object (or heuristically a cyclist/pedestrian/animal).
Such systems already exist in various forms for high end cars to alert
primarily for deer (or at least that's how it's sold, the market for 
this kind of car is likely to live in their mcmansion in the middle of 
nowhere and commute an hour to work).

--jim

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:26:17AM -0500, Jim Leonard wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:22:22AM -0500, TSmith4918 at aol.com wrote:
> >  
> > My 14 year old kid had a great idea last night:  have auto-based GPS  systems 
> > warn the driver when they are in 100yds of a biker.  that gentle  reminder 
> > could improve our visibility
> 
> That's actually a cool idea.  Frickin useless in some parts of town, but 
> outside of areas where there is at least one bike every 100 yards, that 
> would be awesome.  Pedestrians on the road would be a good addition too.
> Specifically country roads and the like.
> 
> --jim
> 
> >  
> >  
> >  
> > In a message dated 1/31/2008 12:04:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> > jym at econet.org writes:
> > 
> > >  Most police have no experience with accident reconstruction
> > > involving  bicycles and furthermore see more cyclists ignoring
> > > the traffic laws  than following them so why shouldn't they
> > > assume that the cyclist was  at fault.
> > 
> > =v= I would say "misperceive" rather than "see."   Motorists
> > ignore more laws, more serious laws, and with much more  serious
> > consequences; but since this is the norm, the police have  taken
> > to ignoring all but their most egregious offenses.  (Most  of
> > them are plunked behind the wheels of cars themselves.)
> > <_Jym_>
> > 
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