Route planner systems are GPS and know what road you are on. A speed limit database is just a simple extension to this.
Add in wifi and your local government has an automated speeding ticket delivery system.
You speed and the GPS records it. You pass through a wifi hotspot and you get a ticket in the post...... or a court summons depending on how quick you were going.
If, for example the speedometer and engine warning lights were in the HUD then the rider wouldn't have to take her eyes off the road to check them
HUD's display the item in the distance in your periphery, the dashboard lights appear underneath you.... in your perifery. Nothing extra is gained from the HUD.
As for displaying speed, I only do that in two scenarios;
1) Law enforcement (speed camera, or a cop car)
2) Entering a town limit.
I dont need a display telling me I am doing a sensible speed to make sure I dont hit deer or turning cars. I make sure I practice that emergency stop every now and again so I know my stopping distances not in feet and inches, but in bike lengths (It does help that I have done 30000 a year in all weathers for the past 8 years).
OK so what about our race team, well if it could display "PIT IN" all across his vision then it may be worth it. However a pit board does the same job and doesnt weight anything. Im afraid this is just another pointless gadget. Cool, but pointless.
On a more worrying note, I also think this gadget is dangerous. Not because of what it does, but because of where it sits. Both times I have crashed (both less than 30mph), I headbutted the bonnet of the car that pulled across in front of me. My visor cracked down the center each time (to show you the force involced Is a box acting as a pressure point really such a good idea !
When you got down real close to a town or neighborhood, the explanatory text was all written by fifth-graders in a set of school projects - it was flat and unstylish but very vivid
I was one of those vivid fifth formers!
We were dropped off by bus in twos and threes at various points down a local village. I had to document a nursery, and my friend had to document a farm about a mile from his drop point.
I was a studious type, and spoke at length to the owner. My friends group didnt fancy a two mile hike, so they made up the data from an OS map they took with them!
So Im wonder if this data is actually worth keeping... other than as an insight into childrens minds in the 80's ? Then again, how acurate was the origional ?
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Route planner systems are GPS and know what road you are on. A speed limit database is just a simple extension to this.
... ... or a court summons depending on how quick you were going.
Add in wifi and your local government has an automated speeding ticket delivery system.
You speed and the GPS records it.
You pass through a wifi hotspot and you get a ticket in the post
Aarron
If, for example the speedometer and engine warning lights were in the HUD then the rider wouldn't have to take her eyes off the road to check them
.... in your perifery. Nothing extra is gained from the HUD.
HUD's display the item in the distance in your periphery, the dashboard lights appear underneath you
As for displaying speed, I only do that in two scenarios;
1) Law enforcement (speed camera, or a cop car)
2) Entering a town limit.
I dont need a display telling me I am doing a sensible speed to make sure I dont hit deer or turning cars. I make sure I practice that emergency stop every now and again so I know my stopping distances not in feet and inches, but in bike lengths (It does help that I have done 30000 a year in all weathers for the past 8 years).
OK so what about our race team, well if it could display "PIT IN" all across his vision then it may be worth it. However a pit board does the same job and doesnt weight anything. Im afraid this is just another pointless gadget. Cool, but pointless.
On a more worrying note, I also think this gadget is dangerous. Not because of what it does, but because of where it sits. Both times I have crashed (both less than 30mph), I headbutted the bonnet of the car that pulled across in front of me. My visor cracked down the center each time (to show you the force involced Is a box acting as a pressure point really such a good idea !
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When you got down real close to a town or neighborhood, the explanatory text was all written by fifth-graders in a set of school projects - it was flat and unstylish but very vivid
... other than as an insight into childrens minds in the 80's ? Then again, how acurate was the origional ?
I was one of those vivid fifth formers!
We were dropped off by bus in twos and threes at various points down a local village. I had to document a nursery, and my friend had to document a farm about a mile from his drop point.
I was a studious type, and spoke at length to the owner. My friends group didnt fancy a two mile hike, so they made up the data from an OS map they took with them!
So Im wonder if this data is actually worth keeping
Aarron