Friday 29th November 2002

Rear View Helmets

At last a system that lets you see behind when wearing a helmet - and it's British!

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[v8thunder]

Ah, good. Now they can see what's coming up behind them they won't be able to blame it all on the motorist if they get hit and 'didn't see it coming'

[ultimasimon]

no good; the women would just use em' for putting their make-up on

:sitsback&waitsforavalancheofabuse:

[Chesta]

Sounds great to me- if the cyclist tips his head back whilst speaking, he'll be able to see that he's talking out of his ar$e!
At least he'll be able to see the truck that squashes him before he becomes a pancake!

[ATG]

That is really rather clever. If they make a motorcycle version they could propbably fit it with a sort of head-up display quite easily as they've got a reasonably long optical path to play with btwn the rider's eyes and the back of the helmet. Your field of view would be the road ahead, then a thin row of speed/rpm/distance to speed camera type data then a rear view. You could pretend to be robcop.

[voyds9]

Great idea, far better than a mirror on the handle bars. Now if they can come up with a similar idea for cars then we can get rid of the unsightly wing mirrors. If you have severe arthritis and are unable to turn your neck its a great idea, however pedalling must be really difficult

[CarZee]

ATG said:Your field of view would be the road ahead, then a thin row of speed/rpm/distance to speed camera type data then a rear view. You could pretend to be robcop.

[nitpick]you mean Street Hawk![/nitpick]

Would be cool though