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I'm a cyclist who often rides with a helmet camera due to misbehavior from drivers, including speeding. Does the app only allow one to measure speeds in video r

I'm a cyclist who often rides with a helmet camera due to misbehavior from drivers, including speeding. Does the app only allow one to measure speeds in video recorded in the app, or could I upload a short clip of an offending vehicle from a separate camera? In the past I've measured speed by manually counting how many frames it takes a vehicle to pass landmarks, but this can be time consuming.

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zionic 5y ago
I love riding bikes in neighborhoods, trails, a greenway-like city paths. Despite it being perfectly legal, I have a hard time finding people who choose to "share the road" with 5,000lb cars going 45+mph anything but crazy. You're rolling the dice every time someone overtakes you. At least in a car I have some of the best engineering available dedicated to protecting me (crash test engineers are gods). Do you value your life so little?
- 1-more 5y ago
  What am I gonna do, tell them they won? Never.
- btrettel 5y ago
  I rarely ride on roads with speed limits 45 mph or faster. I can't recall riding on roads with speed limits above 35 mph in recent memory, in fact. And 5000 lbs is quite heavy as that's more than a F150. Many non-cyclists' perceptions of what is safe differ greatly from reality. For instance, passing can be dangerous, but intersections are where the vast majority of the risk are. And it also shows that a lot of dedicated bike infrastructure is designed to address perceptions of what's unsafe rather than what is actually unsafe. A lot of "protected" bike lanes in my view increase risk because they make the cyclists less visible at intersections. I recommend looking at websites like https://bicyclesafe.com/ https://bicyclesafe.com/ for a more realistic view of the risks of cycling and how to reduce them. My own style of riding makes the top 4 collisions there unlikely (I often "take the lane" as appropriate to improve how visible I am), though I do have issues with various types of right hooks. I'm not sure whether those can be avoided as I ride with hi-viz gear and try to be as visible as possible otherwise.

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zionic 5y ago

I love riding bikes in neighborhoods, trails, a greenway-like city paths. Despite it being perfectly legal, I have a hard time finding people who choose to "share the road" with 5,000lb cars going 45+mph anything but crazy. You're rolling the dice every time someone overtakes you. At least in a car I have some of the best engineering available dedicated to protecting me (crash test engineers are gods). Do you value your life so little?

1-more 5y ago
What am I gonna do, tell them they won? Never.
btrettel 5y ago
I rarely ride on roads with speed limits 45 mph or faster. I can't recall riding on roads with speed limits above 35 mph in recent memory, in fact. And 5000 lbs is quite heavy as that's more than a F150. Many non-cyclists' perceptions of what is safe differ greatly from reality. For instance, passing can be dangerous, but intersections are where the vast majority of the risk are. And it also shows that a lot of dedicated bike infrastructure is designed to address perceptions of what's unsafe rather than what is actually unsafe. A lot of "protected" bike lanes in my view increase risk because they make the cyclists less visible at intersections. I recommend looking at websites like https://bicyclesafe.com/ https://bicyclesafe.com/ for a more realistic view of the risks of cycling and how to reduce them. My own style of riding makes the top 4 collisions there unlikely (I often "take the lane" as appropriate to improve how visible I am), though I do have issues with various types of right hooks. I'm not sure whether those can be avoided as I ride with hi-viz gear and try to be as visible as possible otherwise.