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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."
You might try pausing at those octagonal red signs you might have seen. They have white letters on them.
Not that any other bicyclist does...
AC
You're not a cyclist are you? Stopping on the road (even at a stop sign) to bury your head in a map or phone GPS is a good way to get rear ended by a car and you'll never see him coming since you're looking at your map. You could pull off the road onto the unpaved shoulder, but that seems like a lot of work to avoid using an electronic navigation aid.
Sadly, an increasing number of cyclists continue a culture of placing the onus on vehicle drivers to avoid cyclists doing stupid, dangerous, or illegal things with small, fast-moving vehicles who then get struck.
FTFY
There are similar number of bad cyclists as there are bad drivers. I was making a right turn on a green. A cyclist on the two way crossing street in the far lane passed several cars on the right barely slowing down, did not stop at the stop light, turned left in front of the stopped vehicles into the crosswalk and passed in front of my vehicle. Had I not noticed him and stopped he would have been a hood ornament and his fault. Legally he broke the following laws; passing on right without enough room, failing to stop at a stop light, turning left from the incorrect lane(there was a left turn lane) and riding a bicycle in a crosswalk. Bicycle vs vehicle accidents are not always the vehicle's fault. I ride a motorcycle sometimes and know that a fight between a 4 wheel vehicle and a 2 wheel vehicle will always be won by the 4 wheels. I call it right of weight.
I have seen many cyclists push their rights to be on the road until it is inconvenient and then want to be treated as a pedestrian. Cyclists are one or the other. Not both. If you want to be treated as a pedestrian get off your bike. Many time cyclists break laws so they don't have to expend energy. I don't think I have ever seen a cyclist stop at an intersection with a stop sign when making a right hand turn.