Shaky Thing
February 2nd, 2009
At Pat’s prompting, I asked a company called Isaac Direct to loan us a head harness called, fittingly, the Isaac. It’s like a shock absorber that hooks to our helmets. We can turn our heads in normal situations, but if we crash, the device locks down. We need only one; it unhooks and stays in the car while we come and go.
Anyway, Greg Baker, the Isaac guy, agreed to the deal, and plans to ship me a medium sometime this week. He said he’d let us keep the Isaac if our camera donors gave us a dashboard camera that shows the driver. Apparently, the Isaac logo is prominent.
Nice! But if they’re demanding we have a dash-cam..it sounds to me like they want us to get in a major wreck so they have footage of how well their thing works.
I think this is what they call “adverse selection.”
Awesome! The race car cameras arrived via UPS yesterday and we can arrange them however we want, so we will make sure that the forward facing one captures the side of the driver’s head to feature that logo.
Brad, if you would get back in touch with Greg to make sure that he ships us plenty of sticker logos too then we can make sure to get those on the car too.
Also, we will probably have at least 3 and probably 4 different helmets in the car. Looking at the device it seems like there is a component that attaches to each helmet too? So we will need enough helmet connectors to make 4 helmets work with the Isaac device.
This is super good news, Brad. Thanks for taking care of it.
I’ll mention the helmet connectors to Greg.
If he could get those out to us ASAP so we can test fit them and then try them out on our track testing day, that would be super. Thanks Brad.