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good read. i usually ride with my garmin.

Thanks for posting this article. I presumed it would be about training w/ GPS and almost didn't click through. It's a story about a cyclist being hit by a lying car driver. Read on...

I've been looking for an excuse to buy something like this. I guess this is as good an excuse as any. it'll be my next "non-necessity" purchase.

I think a camera would be more useful in this regard. GPS doesn't tell them your lane position, if you had a green light, or if you had the right of way at a stop sign. A camera should do most of those things, plus get footage of any hit-and-run perpetrators.

@Dwillen True enough, but how much does a camera like that cost? I'm not entirely clear it actually would have aided in this case. By that I mean the camera only catches what happens in front of you. For instance, it would have been virtually worthless in the Erzinger case (although GPS would have been as well)

in this case, it may have made the process even quicker. the cyclist could have said, right off the bat, "I have the incident on video."

Money being no object, I'd have both the GPS and the helmet cam. Redundancy. If one fails for whatever reason, the other one isn't likely to. That said, I'm probably going to get the camera first.

I would think the cameras are just as expensive as the gps. Each is in excess of $200, right?

The whole notion of having to go to such extremes to overcome the ridiculous burden of proof placed on non-motorists really offends me. Even if with proof, the penalty on the driver is typically less than what you paid for the camera/gps unit.

I wonder if the guy in the story inquired of his insurance company if what the driver attempted to do constituted insurance fraud. I'm sure insurance companies are used to hearing several versions of reality in any given claim, but it sounds like this woman was just fabricating stories left and right without any attempt at the truth.

"it sounds like this woman was just fabricating stories left and right"

and they say we don't make anything in this country anymore...

Wow, I didn't realize how cheap the cameras were:

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=&rlz=1B3GGLL_enUS399US399&q=contourhd&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=18216288346750845677&ei=-W0OTa7CBoSBlAejtfy0DA&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDkQ8wIwAw#

...it sounds like this woman was just fabricating stories left and right without any attempt at the truth.

If a helmet cam had been on and operating, and capturing the conversation, that too could have been sent to the insurance company. Bingo, proof of attempted fraud. The GPS would not have captured that.

+1 sloaps.

Some folks are probably getting around on bikes that don't even come close to the cost of camera + gps. And, there've got to be better ways of doing things than Total Surveillance.