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Old 08-13-2014, 11:51 AM   #27
HarryS
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Originally Posted by TemeCal View Post
I know you guys sell the AIM, so it's easy to say "HLT just isn't accurate". I just can't justify $700 for something that may be 1/100th of a second more accurate. I realize you use it for much more than a timer. If I wanted to go deep into analyzing my laps, I'd certainly pay the $700. But, I'm at a point where I just go to the events to have fun. Nothing more. At some point, it's easy to lose the fun factor at the track. I have a feeling, that for the majority of drivers at these events, HLT is perfectly suitable and sufficient.
AIMs (and any other dedicated data recording system) are not more accurate than a professional track app. Instead they suffer from hardware limitations (Google, Samsung, Apple can invest a lot more in hardware development than a small niche company can do) to provide sophisticated analytics and graphics. Smartphone apps can suffer from a consumer GPS, but can be improved using an external GPS. Today, this is mainly a question of taste and personal priorities. :-)

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