GF and NT700VA in rehab...

JQL said:
It's the same as in the car. When a vehicle is coming up behind it gives a warning on the unit's screen (with optional annoying sound) and tells you whether it's to the left, directly behind or to the right. It can also automatically switch to the rear camera so you can monitor the vehicle.
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And then?
Can you deploy countermeasures like flares or such? 🤔
 
JQL said:
It's the same as in the car. When a vehicle is coming up behind it gives a warning on the unit's screen (with optional annoying sound) and tells you whether it's to the left, directly behind or to the right. It can also automatically switch to the rear camera so you can monitor the vehicle. Great for traffic lights and intersections. It has worked flawlessly on the 3 times I have used the bike since fitting it.

In the video, you can see it working towards the end as I am following the bus in Brie Comte Robert and at the roundabout.

Sorry about hijacking the thread but, hopefully, this type of thing will help someone in a similar situation in the future. It was ST1100Y's girlfriend's crash which prompted me to get it.
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Interesting option. While my 2025 and 2026 cars have rear radar/sonar and side collision/blind spot collision avoidance, the rear beep beep beep happens when you are backing up (car is in reverse) and a car is coming from the right or left or is right behind you. At no time does it go off while moving forward. Tail gaiting and reckless driving by lead footed lane hoppers is epidemic in the states and the system would be sounding alarms all the time.
 
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Front and back cameras were included with the car play screen that I mounted on the Triumph. I liked looking up a close encounter.
In my car, I installed a dash cam with an additional view inside and out the back window. I thought since I was driving this year from Spokane WA to FL for the Winter, it would be a good idea. What could possibly go wrong with a 78 yo doing a 2,800 cross country solo? At least someone could use the SD card to see what happened to me. Nothing so far.
 
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JQL said:
Damn good idea with the "White Van Man" in France. Though, an anti-aircraft gun might be more appropriate... :oops::D
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Bofors guns are too heavy. Flares or handfulls of jagged rocks... :thumb: Traffic enforcement would be nice. I was talking with one of my troopers who was at my district when I retired....he was lucky enough to earn an unmarked car when he worked over on the left coast. We he came to Eastern WA, he had to give up his Unmarked car but wrote 118 tickets in one week. The Capt said that the first unmarked car that became available was his for the asking. In the US, the public doesnt want to pay for traffic enforcement.
 
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Chucksklrst said:
write enough tickets, that will pay for traffic enforcement. If all the expired temp tags were ticketed here in the front range and the fines were worth the enforcement, then there would surely be enough money to pay for it.
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ITA. And the fines are too cheep to begin with. But in the state patrol, only a small amount of a ticket goes to the SP, and thats for the crime lab. The lion's share goes to the county. This is not a good system.
I am all for a reward based system and so is the feral govt. When they give the WSP bucks to do an enforcement emphasis...say a speed enforcement for 8 hour in a certain area of I 90 for a day using an aircraft and 5 patrol cars...they want to see a certain number of tickets written. I have listened to them run an emphasis over my WSP radio...the trooper in the plane calls out say 3 speed checks on a blue NT1100. Then a troop takes off after the Blue NT1100 when he passes the entrance ramp where the patrol cars are parked....so the troop who stops the car never actually never having done a speed check on that car. But the aircraft troop tell the squad car troop when he is behind the correct blue NT1100 and that troop writes the ticket. Its very entertaining. Probably 10 mph over will get you a ticket for the quota. 7-8 might get you a talking to.
I am all in for jacking the fines up, not letting people off the hook if they are doing really bad behavior, and purchasing more police. It sickens me that those kids tepeed a teacher's house and the teacher is in on it and comes out and one of the kids runs him over and kills him and the judge lets the kid off scott free. Jack the fines up, tell the insurance companies, take away license plates...its a self leveling system....once you are hammering the population and the bad actors are seriously hurt and do jail time, people will get the idea its just not worth it. (Switzerland uses speed cameras and bases the fine on your income) Wouldnt they love to stop an NFL player in their Maserattee doing 100 and hitting cars?)
(In WA, expired tags are no big deal. You get the tags renewed and take the proof to the WSP district HQ and there is no fine. Now an expired drivers license is a whole different story. But the prosecuters play lets make a deal because they are overloaded with cases....Jack up the fines, no plea deals, buy more law enforcement.
 
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