Fewer bans are better than fewer cameras
08/17/2015
Since consumer electronics have allowed ever smaller and more efficient devices, so-called onboard cameras have also rapidly gained in popularity at sporting and racing events with old cars. Despite their small size, these video recording devices, which are often mounted on the outside of classic cars, look like foreign objects in photos and to spectators, destroying the historic ambience.
Many classic car fans (and Zwischengas readers) probably agree. Nevertheless, they, or 38% of all respondents to our last question of the week "Should onboard cameras be banned at classic car events" , are against such a ban and place greater value on the freedom of the driver. And if a restriction were to be introduced anyway, they would prefer to ban only those cameras that really get in the way (33%).
Just 27% are in favor of regulatory intervention, which could also come from the organizer, for example, whereby around half of those against cameras could also live with a limit of one camera per car and thus combating the proliferation of two, four or even eight cameras - all of which have already been seen! - live with.
So classic car fans prefer to do without bans and accept the often annoying cameras.
As always, here are the complete answers for the sake of completeness:
However, there is another aspect to consider here, namely the safety perspective, as one reader pointed out. In the event of a crash or even a hard knock, onboard cameras, which are of course never mounted on the vehicle at the time of acceptance, can also go missing. In the worst case, the camera could hit a spectator or a marshal (or another driver). Despite the low weight of most onboard cameras, the force of the impact could be great. "For this reason, various national motorsport associations have issued clear guidelines for all events under their jurisdiction on how exactly (i.e. mechanically) an onboard camera should be mounted. In Switzerland, the national sports commission has adopted these guidelines, which apply to all official hill climbs and slaloms in Switzerland," said the reader's letter, recommending that such guidelines should also be applied to historic events.
We have already thrown another question into the round. This week we want to know whether modern gasoline harms classic car engines.
All previous questions of the week and their answers can be found in the "Question of the week" topic channel .
