Accelerometer brainstorming

[Alexey Feldgendler]

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:52:56 +0200, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen  
<quatrox at gmail.com> wrote:

> What do we need the CAN interface for?
> We already know the speed before we enter the tunnel, and if the neo
> is in a car holder in a stable position, calibrated with some
> software, it knows from the accelerometers if we are driving strait
> ahead or making a turn and also if we are accelerating. With a little
> bit of mathematics, this can turn out to be very precise.

As you're driving through a long tunnel (the longest one in Norway being  
24.5 km), error accumulation will deteriorate the precision to the point  
of rendering the data useless.


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