Rudolph Hooker -- Black Box ?
I was in a Canal side pub the other day talking to boater who had just witnessed a hire boat driven more like a dodgem. It had crashed into just about everything on it's way through a flight of 5 locks, in one case dislodging a substantial coping stone at a lock entrance.
This tallies with info from my friend in the hire boat industry who suspects the dramatic rise in damage to their craft is definitely not "accidental" Perhaps some sort of Black Box recorder was in order I ventured. With a GPS receiver an accelerometer, and a memory card, it would be possible to record where, when and severity of every impact Then the hirer could impose a surcharge based on that data.
Unfortunately, if Hamish Sidebotham FD of AV(2010)PLC got to hear of this device my companion pointed out, boaters would end up paying a mileage and lock surcharge as well as the Licence.
This "Accountant Mentality" has a lot to answer for.
This tallies with info from my friend in the hire boat industry who suspects the dramatic rise in damage to their craft is definitely not "accidental" Perhaps some sort of Black Box recorder was in order I ventured. With a GPS receiver an accelerometer, and a memory card, it would be possible to record where, when and severity of every impact Then the hirer could impose a surcharge based on that data.
Unfortunately, if Hamish Sidebotham FD of AV(2010)PLC got to hear of this device my companion pointed out, boaters would end up paying a mileage and lock surcharge as well as the Licence.
This "Accountant Mentality" has a lot to answer for.
