{"id":239028065,"date":"2012-07-29T12:41:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T12:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=239028065"},"modified":"2012-07-29T12:41:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T12:41:05","slug":"cameras-are-cyclists-black-boxes-in-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=239028065","title":{"rendered":"Cameras Are Cyclists\u2019 \u2018Black Boxes\u2019 in Accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By NICK WINGFIELD, New York Times<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nVideo from these cameras has begun to play an invaluable role in police investigations of a small number of hit-and-runs and other incidents around the country, local authorities say. Lawyers who specialize in representing bicyclists say they expect the use of cameras for this purpose to increase as awareness of the devices goes up and their prices, now starting at around $200, come down.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a fact of life that on American roads that you get punked, cut off purposely, harassed, not once but on a regular basis,\u201d said Bob Mionske, a former Olympic cyclist who is now a lawyer representing bicyclists in Portland, Ore. \u201cIf motorists start to hear about bikes having cameras, they\u2019re going to think twice about running you off the road.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMr. Wilder said, \u201cMost cyclists don\u2019t use cameras so Mr. Diehl may have assumed he could assault and drive away anonymously.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/21\/technology\/bicyclists-using-cameras-to-capture-accidents.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/21\/technology\/bicyclists-using-cameras-to-capture-accidents.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By NICK WINGFIELD, New York Times &#8230; Video from these cameras has begun to play an invaluable role in police investigations of a small number of hit-and-runs and other incidents around the country, local authorities say. Lawyers who specialize in representing bicyclists say they expect the use of cameras for this purpose to increase as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=239028065\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cameras Are Cyclists\u2019 \u2018Black Boxes\u2019 in Accidents&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239028065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239028065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239028065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239028065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239028065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239028065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239028065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}