A blackbox in your GPS – Something to smile and feel bad about at once

Posted on July 19, 2007
Filed Under Robots, Mobile Phones

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Black Eagel GPS records crashes What you see up there, is not just some sleek looking GPS for the great-looking car you just bought, or well, wish to buy. It’s a GPS that’s actually capable of maintaining a record of accidents and car crashes. Well, no, it won’t help you avoid the crash. That’s something you got to do by keeping a tab on your forever booming testosterone levels or maybe be wise and don’t drink and drive.

When the Black Eagle GPS detects a deceleration of 1.1G or more, it assumes you’ve run into something , well mostly of the magnitude of a tree or a car, and saves an 18-second video of the collision. I’m still wondering, what good this might do. I mean it’s obviously not preventive, but yeah it would be great evidence to understand the causes of accidents.

I guess it still is a cool thing, but unfortunately only available in Korea as of now. But while it might be an interesting thing to gift yourself, you’re not going to be too happy when your mother discovers on video that you’ve just had a great high-intensity ride. You’ll end up just having a GPS for life, and can forget about your car then. (NiRa)