Dave wrote on 08/05/20 at 04:22:38:All of these systems can help - but my fear of them is folks become too complacent and stop relying on their own senses to help keep themselves and others safe.
Before I read down, Dave's was precisely the same response I was forming.
Nothing replaces sensibility and full accountability of the rider. Even when I was taking flying lessons where we were way up in the air in the middle of nowhere over cow fields where you aren't usually going to get cut-off by another plane (
unless you are doing something REALLY stupid) it is still procedure to look and do full 360 degree clearing turns to make sure there is no one in or around your flight path before practicing stalls, steep turns and other procedures. The planes have radios, GPS, radar (some), and other collision avoidance gadgetry but that
NEVER absolves the pilot in command from performing the manual clearing turn procedure.
I just don't trust electronics as much as I do common sense.