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Bike Michiana 
Black Box for Bikes
Posted by Adam Bee on April 24, 2009
One of the things that sometimes keeps me up at night is the possibility that on any given day I could be run down in cold blood by a homicidal maniac, and nobody would be left alive to testify on my behalf. Folks would shrug and mumble, “Shoulda been on the sidewalk,” or, “Why wasn’t he driving his car?”
Then it occurred to me: Airplane pilots have an eerily similar problem, and they’ve solved in by carrying a “black box” to record any possible crash. Why not have the same thing for bikes?
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Posted in Commentary, Gear | Tagged: accelerometers, black box, cameras, cars, collisions, GPS, video | 1 Comment »