Bicycle news, reviews, tips, and opinion from Portland, Oregon - Biketown, USA
Friday, December 24, 2010
Why Cyclists Need GPS
...and this is not a sales pitch disguised as a new story. Really thought provoking - this one. I may have finally been pushed over the ledge toward getting one myself after reading this.
I ran across this story during my almost-weekly "try-to-catch-up-on-the-news" trip to bikeportland.org. Jonathan ran a story he'd received as a tip from a friend (I guess this story is going viral...) about a pro cyclist who'd been hit by a car. Basically, the route and telemetry data from the rider's Garmin Edge 500 GPS unit served as a sort of "cycling black-box" to prove where he was and where he had come from at the time the incident occurred in order to support his side of the story.
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