Helmets

daviesee
daviesee Posts: 6,386
edited December 2013 in Commuting chat
Finally, a very good reason to wear one in the future.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25180906
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
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  • gingaman
    gingaman Posts: 576
    Have you seen the invisible bike helmet from Sweden? http://www.travelinggreener.com/cycling ... om-sweden/
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    gingaman wrote:
    Have you seen the invisible bike helmet from Sweden? http://www.travelinggreener.com/cycling ... om-sweden/
    Great!
    So instead of wearing a bit of polystyrene on my head I will now have to wear a thick scarf.
    In the summer.
    And it is as likely to go off when bunny hopping kerbs and potholes.
    And it costs 300 Euro.

    No thanks.
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  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Not sure if I could carry off that look...
  • This topic goes on and on and on and on....
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    This topic goes on and on and on and on....
    Mostly because we have went OT.

    Watch you're head now.
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  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,973
    looks like her legs have been photo-shopped
  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,973
    looks like her legs have been photo-shopped
  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    daviesee wrote:
    And it costs 300 Euro.
    Are you in Ireland?
    If so, fine.
    If not, it costs 300 Euros.
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    TGOTB wrote:
    daviesee wrote:
    And it costs 300 Euro.
    Are you in Ireland?
    If so, fine.
    If not, it costs 300 Euros.
    Sorry.
    It costs 300 Euro's.
    Happy?
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    No, it's not possesive but a plural so its Euros.

    That aside Drones can only be flown in the UK within site of the operator (which is why those dumb twits at GMP had to ground the ones they bought) so we won't be seeing that here anytime soon.
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  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    Ah, but what if you have another drone with a camera pointing at the first drone; the operator of drone 1 can use the camera footage from drone 2 to keep it within sight.

    OK, so some smarta*se is going to point out that the operator of drone 2 needs to keep that within sight. Here's the clever bit: You have a camera on drone 1, pointing at drone 2, and the operator of drone 2 uses that footage. Problem solved :-)
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  • daviesee wrote:
    Mostly because we have gone OT.

    Watch your head now.

    FTFY - just in case the grammar/spelling Nazis come back :wink:

    (please note lack of apostrophe as Nazis are very often plural and generally not possessive. Unless of course you have a country they happen to want, like Poland, or France)
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  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    Must be a record; only 13 posts to fulfil Godwin's Law...
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    daviesee wrote:
    Mostly because we have gone OT.

    Watch your head now.

    FTFY - just in case the grammar/spelling Nazis come back :wink:

    (please note lack of apostrophe as Nazis are very often plural and generally not possessive. Unless of course you have a country they happen to want, like Poland, or France)
    I left school 34 years ago.
    If I had wanted a lesson I would have asked.

    Getting back to flying thingie's getting in the way on my cycle route.....
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  • TGOTB wrote:
    Ah, but what if you have another drone with a camera pointing at the first drone; the operator of drone 1 can use the camera footage from drone 2 to keep it within sight.

    OK, so some smarta*se is going to point out that the operator of drone 2 needs to keep that within sight. Here's the clever bit: You have a camera on drone 1, pointing at drone 2, and the operator of drone 2 uses that footage. Problem solved :-)
    Except that the operator can physically see neither drone. Which is the point - the rules state:

    "Article 166 of the ANO 2009 includes specific regulations for small unmanned aircraft and Article 167 of the ANO 2009 includes additional regulations for small unmanned aircraft that are 'equipped to undertake any form of surveillance or data acquisition'. In summary, they prohibit unmanned aircraft from flying in congested areas, flying close to people or property, flying for aerial work purposes or flying beyond visual line of sight unless permission has been given by the CAA"

    Of course some smarta*se will now point out that the CAA will give Amazon permission to fly unmanned drones in UK airspace. Not.

    It's only one step away from Reaper drones armed with air-to-ground ordnance and piloted by a spotty youth wielding an Xbox controller 4,000 miles away. Not paid your Amazon invoice? No-one at home to accept delivery? Goodbye...... :shock:
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  • TGOTB wrote:
    Must be a record; only 13 posts to fulfil Godwin's Law...
    "While falling afoul of Godwin's law tends to cause the individual making the comparison to lose his argument or credibility, Godwin's law itself can be abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, fallaciously miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole when the comparisons made by the argument are actually appropriate. Similar criticisms of the "law" (or "at least the distorted version which purports to prohibit all comparisons to German crimes") have been made by Glenn Greenwald"

    This of course presumes one had any credibility in the first place :wink:
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  • daviesee wrote:
    daviesee wrote:
    Mostly because we have gone OT.

    Watch your head now.

    FTFY - just in case the grammar/spelling Nazis come back :wink:

    (please note lack of apostrophe as Nazis are very often plural and generally not possessive. Unless of course you have a country they happen to want, like Poland, or France)
    I left school 34 years ago.
    If I had wanted a lesson I would have asked.

    Me too. And apologies, wasn't aimed at you Daviesee, just a general shot across the bows of the nit-pickers.
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  • Just out of mild curiosity, how did we morph from scarf-helmets to drones? I feel I must have missed something...
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Just out of mild curiosity, how did we morph from scarf-helmets to drones? I feel I must have missed something...
    That will be the OP that you missed. :wink:
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    We started at Drones if you read the first post (not again clearly!) and went to helmet scarves - do keep up at the back!
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  • daviesee wrote:
    Just out of mild curiosity, how did we morph from scarf-helmets to drones? I feel I must have missed something...
    That will be the OP that you missed. :wink:
    It's been a long week....... :oops:

    Maybe my question should have been: "how did we morph from Amazonian drones into invisible scarf-helmets"





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  • The Rookie wrote:
    We started at Drones if you read the first post (not again clearly!) and went to helmet scarves - do keep up at the back!
    Sorry Sir. It was Daley Sir. He was showing me his thingy.........
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  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    TGOTB wrote:
    Ah, but what if you have another drone with a camera pointing at the first drone; the operator of drone 1 can use the camera footage from drone 2 to keep it within sight.

    OK, so some smarta*se is going to point out that the operator of drone 2 needs to keep that within sight. Here's the clever bit: You have a camera on drone 1, pointing at drone 2, and the operator of drone 2 uses that footage. Problem solved :-)
    Except that the operator can physically see neither drone. Which is the point - the rules state:

    "Article 166 of the ANO 2009 includes specific regulations for small unmanned aircraft and Article 167 of the ANO 2009 includes additional regulations for small unmanned aircraft that are 'equipped to undertake any form of surveillance or data acquisition'. In summary, they prohibit unmanned aircraft from flying in congested areas, flying close to people or property, flying for aerial work purposes or flying beyond visual line of sight unless permission has been given by the CAA"

    Of course some smarta*se will now point out that the CAA will give Amazon permission to fly unmanned drones in UK airspace. Not.

    It's only one step away from Reaper drones armed with air-to-ground ordnance and piloted by a spotty youth wielding an Xbox controller 4,000 miles away. Not paid your Amazon invoice? No-one at home to accept delivery? Goodbye...... :shock:
    Hmmm... I think you may have thought I was being serious.

    Being serious now, though, your argument that miniature unmanned drones are only one step away from Reaper drones carrying ordnance is entirely spurious. That would be like banning microlights on the grounds that they're only one step away from military fighter bombers.
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  • TGOTB wrote:
    Hmmm... I think you may have thought I was being serious

    Damnation. Busted.
    TGOTB wrote:
    Being serious now, though, your argument that miniature unmanned drones are only one step away from Reaper drones carrying ordnance is entirely spurious. That would be like banning microlights on the grounds that they're only one step away from military fighter bombers.

    You mean they're not? :wink:

    Although with the rate MOD's cutting back at, microlights for the new carriers might be all we get....
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  • The Rookie wrote:
    No, it's not possesive but a plural so its Euros.

    That aside Drones can only be flown in the UK within site of the operator (which is why those dumb twits at GMP had to ground the ones they bought) so we won't be seeing that here anytime soon.

    Amazon will soon be more powerful than the UK Government - they'll just change the law.
  • The Rookie wrote:
    No, it's not possesive but a plural so its Euros.

    That aside Drones can only be flown in the UK within site of the operator (which is why those dumb twits at GMP had to ground the ones they bought) so we won't be seeing that here anytime soon.

    Amazon are more powerful than the UK Government - they'll just change the law.
    FTFY :lol:
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  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Allegedly
  • airbag
    airbag Posts: 201
    The Rookie wrote:
    No, it's not possesive but a plural so its Euros.

    That aside Drones can only be flown in the UK within site of the operator (which is why those dumb twits at GMP had to ground the ones they bought) so we won't be seeing that here anytime soon.

    You've misunderstood. daviesee is entirely bankrolled by Mr Euro. It costs 300 of Euro's Euros, with the (Euros) part omitted for clarity and brevity.

    Should I wear a helmet when Wiggle gets in on the act?
  • airbag wrote:
    The Rookie wrote:

    Should I wear a helmet when Wiggle gets in on the act?

    When it starts raining Haribo's!