When you're on a bike, your eyes are usually on the road ahead. Which is only right. Garmin's Varia Rearview Bike Radar gives you one last pair of eyes so you can keep an eye on what's going on behind you while you're focused on what's ahead. Bike Radar is not Garmin's child, as Garmin bought iKubu a few months ago, which is a similar, but slightly less sophisticated Backtracker product offered on Kickstarter.
Garmin Varia Rearview Bike Radar serves to increase the safety of cyclists. As much as 40 percent of cycling accidents with a fatal outcome occur with collisions from behind. Device controls the traffic behind the cyclist and mounted on a custom seat bracket up to 140 meters away. It sends the collected data to the system Garmin Edge or special module with LEDs, which is installed on the handlebar bracket. It serves as an extra pair of eyes on the back, because it warns the cyclist of what is happening behind him or how fast the car is approaching him.
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Garmin Varia Rearview Bike Radar is an improved version of the device Backtracker start-up by iKubu, which is now owned by this American manufacturer of navigation equipment. The device does not only serve the cyclist, as caution with flashing lights, whose pace increases as they approach, also warns drivers. It belongs in the family It varies, which has special lights that adapt to weather conditions and speed. Connected to a compatible GPS system, they cast light farther at higher speeds, and closer at lower speeds, and the rear light also behaves according to the same principle, the power of which depends on the aggressiveness of the cyclist's braking.
And yes, the Garmin Varia Rearview Bike Radar may not be as good as an extra pair of eyes on your back, but it's the best approximation of what we'll get from eye surgery in the 22nd century. It will be available in the fall of 2015, and the sensor comes at a price 180 euros. Including the screen, you will have to shell out 277 euros.
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