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lonpfrb wrote:
I previously shared these ideas with Cycliq since it seems odd not to have their products collaborate, especially when it is unsafe to reach for the rear camera lock button while riding. Sadly they didn’t seem interested.The Garmin Virb 360 already has two cameras working together but since it needs to be helmet mounted for a clear view is not safe in that position. Obviously helmets are not designed and tested for use with random levers attached. That would be like Anti-MIPS!
Ride safe..
An alternative would be one of those fancy 360° cameras that Jeremy Vine uses, but I recall someone on here stating that those aren’t that great for commuting due to battery life.
It’s a shame that Cycliq seem happy to just push out incremental changes with their products and not be a bit more innovative. Their cameras do seem to be the best for cyclists but they’ve got faults too.
Sriracha wrote:
Interesting picture. The double yellows are effectively enforced by the wands – no more fudging the issue by parking in the cycle lane or on the pavement – either keep driving or try and park in the traffic lane. So now it’s a through route only, from elsewhere to elsewhere. At which point you have to ask why the traffic even goes through the High Street, it makes no sense. Shoppers voting with their feet and purses have resoundingly said No to motorised high streets. Round here we have a sadly dilapidated High Street, and a thriving retail park. The retail park is mostly one huge mall where pedestrian avenues take the place of congested roads. Which would you rather stroll along – its a no-brainer. Perversely, the business in the High Street have vociferously opposed all attempts at pedestrianisation, insisting that their salvation lies in a street clogged with cars, until only charity shops and pawn brokers remain. Even the banks and phone boutiques have gone.You’ve reminded me of some article I read recently that was questioning the U.S. design of roads and streets (roads being for moving vehicles and streets being for shopping etc). It highlighted the confusion in design that happens all over the place whereby shopping areas get mixed up with through routes and thus pedestrians have to put up with an unpleasant amount of traffic. I’ll see if I can find it again.
Edit: searching for “stroads” helped me find it: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/10/30/the-stroad
Those new wands look very
Those new wands look very smart! Haven’t been along there recently, so nice to see the pics.
I wish Road.cc would fix the broken threading.I think there’s a few of us dupes around…
What’s broken about it? It seems to work okay, though it’s not well suited for this large, ragtag collection of crashes.
I just view the comments as
I just view the comments as “Newest First” and look down a few posts when I put something on here, but I’m surprised we don’t get more dupes on this thread to be honest.
Déjà vu?
Déjà vu?
(It’s not Ashley Down, it’s in Lockleaze)
Bristol: autonomous car
Bristol: autonomous car drives itself into a wall, but luckily one female casualty had self-rescued:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-traffic-police-incident-closes-6378021
How about having a front
How about having a front camera with a smallish video screen on it that’s visible whilst riding. Then, have a rear camera that links to it (WIFI? Bluetooth?) and have the rear view displayed on the front camera.
I’ve got one of the first gen. Cycliq 12 front camera/lights and as far as I’m concerned its been an expensive paperweight most of its life. If I get another camera, requirements would be– software needs to work on Android, not just iPhone and “we’ll get Android working later”
– camera needs to show when its recording, rather than let you find out three hours later when you pull the SD card out to find it didn’t save anything
– if it has a light then the light needs to work, always, every time, not be tied in to the firmware of the camera so that if (when) the camera hangs and half bricks itself you’re stuck out somewhere at night with no light
– mechanically balanced on the mount so it doesn’t spend its entire life gradually tipping forward or back due to battery weight, causing you to be continuously tightening the mount screw, then eventually stripping the mount threads so it doesn’t work & needs to be tied on with a bungy strap
– headlight beam that doesn’t piss off anyone heading towards you
– usb-c charging
– camera that doesn’t tell you that 75% of class 10 SD cards are “corrupt” after anywhere from 30minutes to 6weeks use
I’ve got a first gen Cycliq 12 (from their KickStarter IIRC) too and it’s surprisingly still going strong (though it rattles a bit from numerous drops onto concrete and I glued the front bit back on).
The android software is a bit crap, but you don’t really need it – the biggest issue I have is with time synchronisation.
Haven’t had an issue with not knowing that the camera is on – I know its turn on beeps and turn off beeps now.
When it goes into brick mode and won’t turn on, you can easily get it working by poking a paperclip into the tiny reset hole in the back (next to the SD slot?).
Mounting it upside down seems to have solved any issues with it changing angle and haven’t noticed issues with the light beam.
I’ve maybe gone through 2 or three SD cards in however many years I’ve been using it.
I heard that Spiderman really
I heard that Spiderman really hates driving with his evil twin. Apparently he’s a bad parallel Parker.
Just one more thing………
Just one more thing…
Just one more thing…
Glass lenses – especially for the rear where bits of grit may get thrown up at it and make a plastic lens go a bit cloudy over time.
Combined light and camera is
Combined light and camera is convenient for city commuting where you don’t need super powerful lights. They’re better for the rear where you don’t need to have a strong beam.
Apps are the easiest way to configure a camera – the best other alternative is to have a text file where you change the settings, but that’s more of a pain to do. I’d agree about not bothering with video editing within the app though it’d be good to be able to mark a point and it splices segments together to produce a 2minute (or whatever you want) clip either side of that point (note – I should find out how to do that with ffmpeg).
How about front and rear
How about front and rear cameras that sync their time (maybe just when using the controlling app). Also, an “incident” button on the front that can be pressed to record the time when an incident has just happened and prevents overwriting of the relevant video segment(s).
Here we see the usually
Here we see the usually sedate Audi take to the water and attempt to mate with a nearby pedestrian bridge