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Re:Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident by josh2600 on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @02:09PM (#6014162)
That's a really interesting comment. I think there are battery limitations, but maybe you could design Google Glass with an App that triggers on abrupt physical displacement (IE a collision).

I wonder if that would help. You definitely couldn't stream continuously because of battery and bandwidth limitations.

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Re:Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident by frobozz on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @02:12PM (#6014196)
On collision is too late. You need to know the lead up to an accident, not the flight of the device through the air afterwards.
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Re:Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident by 3JPLW on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @02:16PM (#6014235)
Not necessarily. When you ask glass for a photo, it finds the best focus lock over some time period that includes a short time before and after the command was executed. It has some sort of running buffer. This could work exactly the same way.
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Re:Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident by toggle on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @02:20PM (#6014273)
Right, but you could have it continuously recording for as long as its memory will allow, and delete from the beginning when it gets too full. Then, have it save when it detects a collision.

With bike commuting becoming more and more popular, I'm guessing this will be a thing soon. And it should be, as this terrible story shows.

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Re:Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident by jonknee on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @02:10PM (#6014175)
Just have it powered by the bike...
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