This is a quick page as a record of what happened when a group of regular correspondents on the IAM email forum got together to share some driving experiences. As an IAM member with less experience than most, I found it a interesting and rewarding day.

Technology strikes again

Always anxious to be toasting in the white heat of technology, I thought it would be a good idea to fix a webcam in front of the driver to record the drive. I have long pondered the possibility of attaching a camera to the bike to play back to an associate later, but my antique video camera (full VHS size) is far too big, and I was not going to risk  an expensive digital video for nothing. I already have a fastish laptop (1.2 GHz Celeron 256 Mb RAM), and if  the webcam cost me almost all of £20  at PC World it was not going to be too much of a disaster.

Below are some snippets from one of my drives. These are  all in .avi format, and, unfortunately are rather long downloads. I leave it to you to decide whether it was a worthwhile exercise. Click on the picture or text to start the download.

	Motorway (4.2 Mb)
	Single track road (3.0 MB)
	Village (3.6 Mb)

The raw file of the entire drive is 60-odd megabytes, which I can supply on a CD. Photos are now available on the next page.

Email: reply@peterharris.org.uk

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