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# Rideye
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/rideye/
- Published: 2013-09-19T13:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:00:41.000Z
- Description: A bicycle black box helps tip the scales in favour of cyclists involved in accidents
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Travel, Technology, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25, #author-change-2025-05-28

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With at least a dozen bicycling deaths on London roads this year, the hazards of two-wheeled transit remain a major urban issue. Incidents such as the constant antagonism between cyclists and ticket-happy cops in New York – as well as the Addison Lee cab company vs. cyclists debacle in London – have caused ongoing civic tensions with legitimate arguments on both sides. So as long as accidents, citations and their accompanying legal battles are commonplace, there remains a genuine need for accountability and transparency, perhaps, to help tip the scales more fairly in favour of bicyclists.  
  
One L.A. company's answer to the call is [Rideye](http://rideye.com/?ref=protein.xyz), a simple, highly rugged CNC machined bicycle ‘black box’ equipped with an accident sensor. The device captures a continuous 2.5 hours of video, cut off at the point it either senses an accident or is stopped by the push of a button, which should serve to help bicyclists involved in road incidents. As icing on the cake, the device also makes a pretty cool ride along cam and easily connects to a computer like a standard digital camera. With a little less than a month to go, Rideye has already [surpassed its $32,000 goal on Kickstarter](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rideye/rideye-the-black-box-camera-for-your-bike?ref=protein.xyz).   
  
Until bicycle policy and infrastructure in the rest of the world catch up with Copenhagen, it’s great to see so many designers addressing bicycle-related issues with such ingenuity. In many ways, products like Rideye and the [Helios](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/06/helios?ref=protein.xyz) smart bike system mirror the passive safety features of cars. And we know that when things fit easily into our lives, we use and thus benefit from them much more.

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