It happens. It’s over. And nothing follows.
A driver passes close enough to move you. Your heart goes through the roof. Ten seconds later they’re gone, and the whole thing has left no trace anywhere except in your memory. That is the problem we started with.
The incident that leaves no trace.
Cyclists get killed and very nearly killed on ordinary roads, and most of it goes unrecorded. Not unnoticed by the rider — you notice. You remember the ones that came closest for years. Unrecorded by everyone else.
There is no witness. There is no report. Nothing enters any system that anyone will ever look at. The driver doesn’t know it happened and wouldn’t hear about it if they did. By the time you’re home, the only evidence left is a story you tell, and a story is the one form of evidence that carries no weight.
So it happens, and it’s over, and nothing follows. Then it happens again next week, on the same road, to someone else.
A near miss is an event with no paperwork. That is exactly why nothing ever changes about it.
It isn’t apathy. It’s friction.
Riders don’t report close passes because reporting one costs more than most people have left after a ride that frightened them. Four reasons, in the order they stop you.
The footage is buried.
The pass took four seconds. Your camera recorded three hours. Finding the moment means scrubbing an entire ride you'd rather not watch again, and most people give up before they find it.
“Close” isn’t a number.
You know it was close. You can't say how close, and a report that says 'very close' is a report that goes nowhere. Without a measurement it stays your word against theirs, which means it stays nothing.
The card gets wiped.
Storage fills up, the card gets formatted, and the footage that would have mattered is gone before anyone asks for it. Evidence has a shelf life measured in however long until you next need the space.
One incident is just one incident.
Even a reported pass sits alone in a file. Nobody can see that the same junction produced eleven of them this year, because nothing is counting. Patterns are what actually change roads, and no one is holding the pattern.
Prevent the crash before it needs a report.
The goal is not a better filing cabinet. It is fewer cyclists getting hit. Almost every collision between a car and a bike is preceded by passes that were already too close, on roads where it had already happened to someone else. Those passes are the warning, and nobody is listening to them.
So we count them. A record — measured, dated, located, and attached to a vehicle — produced automatically by a detection model we built for exactly this, for every pass, without the rider having to do anything but upload. Not another campaign asking drivers to be careful. Documentation is the only thing that has ever turned an incident into a consequence, and consequences are what change how people drive.
And documenting it is where Rydiq starts, not where it stops. The same model that reads your footage after a ride is built to run in real time, on a camera of our own, so the record becomes a warning you get while there is still time to react. Evidence after the fact is step one. Preventing the crash is the point.
Four commitments we don’t trade away.
The rider does nothing
If documenting a close pass takes effort, it won't happen at scale, and a record that only exists for the most motivated riders isn't a record of anything. Upload is the entire ask. Everything after it is ours.
The footage outlives the ride
Evidence you deleted is evidence you don't have. We hold your footage so the decision to keep it is never a decision you have to remember to make.
A number, not an adjective
Every pass gets a measured clearance, consistently, so one rider's report means the same thing as another's. Comparable numbers are what let incidents add up instead of piling up.
It's your evidence
Your rides are yours. We don't sell footage, and we don't hand it to anyone. When a report goes to the police, it goes because you sent it.
Every ride you upload makes the record bigger.
Start with your own. The next close pass you have will be measured, documented, and yours to do something about.
