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Pirelli Diablo Super Biker iPhone app

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Pretty slick has both track and road modes!

If it could do all this while doing navigation.. .that be pretty sweet.


"Pirelli has launched an iPhone app for motorcyclists that tracks speed, lean angle, road routes and racetrack lap times


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The Diablo Super Biker app comes with:

-- Choice between road and track mode.
-- Bike telemetry-data recording.
-- Lean angle measured using GPS technology.
It can:
--Measure speed, distance and lap time during track sessions.
-- Display recorded sessions via Google Maps.
-- Share your best rides on Pirelli's Web site or Facebook."

 
i have this app but have only tried it out once... and it wasn't what i would call "accurate". It said i did a max speed of 561km/h on king rd and my max lean angle was 86.9 degrees. As much as those stats look totally awesome.... i guarantee both are as far away from the truth as possible. :) maybe it was poor reception or something.
 
Why (...and how?) would it use GPS for lean angle when the iPhone has a 3-axis gyroscope?
 
espro said:
Why (...and how?) would it use GPS for lean angle when the iPhone has a 3-axis gyroscope?
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I was thinking the same thing. Has to be a typo when translating from Italian to English. I don't think it would even be possible to calculate lean angle with just gps data.
 
Sounds like a stretch.... but perhaps the phone has to be fixed to the bike and the lean is figured out the same way the level app works????

I'll try it out, but I don't expect too much.
 
espro said:
Why (...and how?) would it use GPS for lean angle when the iPhone has a 3-axis gyroscope?
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I had to look it up because that didn't sound right, and it seems that they only came out with a gyroscope for iPhone 4.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_4#Gyroscope_and_accelerometer

The rest of us just have linear accelerometers which would do a very crude job of detecting lean angle. Even the gyroscopes would have to rely on the accelerometers and user input to establish a horizon I think.

GPS can calculate lean angle by calculating G-forces based on speed and radius through a turn.
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