The device that measures cyclist passing distances

QUOTE:
"Around the world, cyclists and cycling authorities are adopting a new piece of technology that measures just how close motorists are getting to cyclists as they pass.

It's a device that measures one of the most contentious distances in road safety – the amount of space between a bicycle and an overtaking car..

Called the C3FT, it has an ultrasonic sensor mounted on the bicycle's handlebars to calculate how near the vehicle came to the bike.

Use of the device was pioneered a year ago by police in Chattanooga in the US state of Tennessee - a city that has a three-feet buffer law when drivers overtake cyclists – similar to the metre and 1.5-metre passing measures now found in half of Australia's states and territories. In New Zealand, a law requiring a 1.5-metre clearance between vehicles and cyclists is still under consideration."

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/8089...sing-distances

On 09/06/2016 06:17, Alycidon wrote:
QUOTE:
"Around the world, cyclists and cycling authorities are adopting a new piece of technology that measures just how close motorists are getting to cyclists as they pass.

It's a device that measures one of the most contentious distances in road safety – the amount of space between a bicycle and an overtaking car.

Called the C3FT, it has an ultrasonic sensor mounted on the bicycle's handlebars to calculate how near the vehicle came to the bike.

Use of the device was pioneered a year ago by police in Chattanooga in the US state of Tennessee - a city that has a three-feet buffer law when drivers overtake cyclists – similar to the metre and 1.5-metre passing measures now found in half of Australia's states and territories. In New Zealand, a law requiring a 1.5-metre clearance between vehicles and cyclists is still under consideration."

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/8089...sing-distances


it should be a legal requirement on every bicycle, retrofitted at the
owners' expense.

On 09/06/2016 06:17, Alycidon wrote:

QUOTE:
"Around the world, cyclists and cycling authorities are adopting a new piece of technology that measures just how close motorists are getting to cyclists as they pass.

It's a device that measures one of the most contentious distances in road safety – the amount of space between a bicycle and an overtaking car.

Would it also measure the distance between a bicycle and an overtaken car?

JNugent wrote:
On 09/06/2016 06:17, Alycidon wrote:

"Around the world, cyclists and cycling authorities are adopting a new
piece of technology that measures just how close motorists are getting
to cyclists as they pass.

It's a device that measures one of the most contentious distances in
road safety – the amount of space between a bicycle and an overtaking
car.

Would it also measure the distance between a bicycle and an overtaken
car?

And of course, you're now going to tell us all how a cyclist passing a
motor car on the left at 15 mph and accidentally colliding with that motor
car, is comparable to a motor car passing a cyclist at 40 mph and
accidentally colliding with that cyclist.

Be sure to demonstrate your understanding of mass, velocity and its
product: momentum in your answer.

Or alternatively, do what you normally do when you're caught out: start
waffling and shift the goalposts.

Either way is fine with me. You basically defeated your own point as soon
as you answered, so not much for me to do, anyway.

--
john smith |MA (Hons)|MPhil (Hons)|CAPES (mention très bien)|LLB (Hons)
'It never gets any easier. You just get faster'
(Greg LeMond (1961 - ))

Anthony '****_Taker' Janssen wrote:
JNugent wrote:
On 09/06/2016 06:17, Alycidon wrote:

"Around the world, cyclists and cycling authorities are adopting a new
piece of technology that measures just how close motorists are getting
to cyclists as they pass.

It's a device that measures one of the most contentious distances in
road safety – the amount of space between a bicycle and an overtaking
car.

Would it also measure the distance between a bicycle and an overtaken
car?

And of course, you're now going to tell us all how a cyclist passing a
motor car on the left at 15 mph and accidentally colliding with that
motor car, is comparable to a motor car passing a cyclist at 40 mph and
accidentally colliding with that cyclist.

Be sure to demonstrate your understanding of mass, velocity and its
product: momentum in your answer.

Or alternatively, do what you normally do when you're caught out: start
waffling and shift the goalposts.

Either way is fine with me. You basically defeated your own point as
soon as you answered, so not much for me to do, anyway.

*tumbleweed*

Heheheh.

The two prolific trolls on uk.rec.cycling seem to think that not responding
to me somehow 'gets to me'. In reality, I get _carte blanche_ [1] to rip
the living **** out of them, without having to bother with their asinine
responses....


[1] that's French, by the way...
--
john smith |MA (Hons)|MPhil (Hons)|CAPES (mention très bien)|LLB (Hons)
'It never gets any easier. You just get faster'
(Greg LeMond (1961 - ))

On 09/06/16 10:44, Anthony '****_Taker' Janssen wrote:
JNugent wrote:
On 09/06/2016 06:17, Alycidon wrote:

"Around the world, cyclists and cycling authorities are adopting
a new piece of technology that measures just how close motorists
are getting to cyclists as they pass.

It's a device that measures one of the most contentious distances
in road safety – the amount of space between a bicycle and an
overtaking car.

Would it also measure the distance between a bicycle and an
overtaken car?

And of course, you're now going to tell us all how a cyclist passing
a motor car on the left at 15 mph and accidentally colliding with
that motor car, is comparable to a motor car passing a cyclist at 40
mph and accidentally colliding with that cyclist.

Be sure to demonstrate your understanding of mass, velocity and its
product: momentum in your answer.

Given the lane width and associated clearance between vehicles on a
motorway, presumably Nugent is unable to park his car in spaces that
don't give the same clearance.