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Hammerhead System Offers a Better Way To Navigate While Cycling
Mark Gibbs writes "If you've ever tried to navigate using a smartphone while cycling you'll know full well that you took your life in your hands. By the time you've focused on the map and your brain has decoded what you're looking at you've traveled far enough to be sliding on gravel or go careening into the side of a car. What's needed is a way that you can get directions from your smartphone without having to lose your focus and possibly your life and Hammerhead Navigation have one of the most interesting answers I've seen."
Get over yourself. The thing about biking is getting from point A to point B. If it's not, you're doing it wrong. However, getting from point A to point B is a mostly solved problem - do your groundwork and plan, before you even set off. For another 9, have something to refer to when the route doesn't match your plan. It's worked for centuries.
"Cadence", sheesh, I almost feel embarassed to have never had a road-going vehicle with more than 2 wheels in my 3 decades of adult life. And you wonder why Critical Mass Porto Alegre happened?
Ahh.. the typical /. lack of empathy or imagination. Here's some situations that you clearly can't be bothered to think of:
- You've moved to a new city, or are going somewhere in a city that you haven't been before. Most people cannot memorise a whole city street plan.
- You've found yourself in a section of the world where you really don't want to stop (lots of traffic, or the locals don't look too friendly).
- Why should I plan, do groundwork? We don't have to! We have the technology! For a technology site there's a massive luddite community on here.
- Fine, you don't like 'cadence', how about 'momentum'. Going up a long hill, tired, then stopping is a massive ballache since you lose all the speed you had.
Lots of things have worked for centuries, doesn't mean we can't do them better.