Originally Posted by wphamilton

I wonder how difficult it would be to programmatically identify dangerous elements of a given strava segment using route information, traffic information from google perhaps, and speed deltas in the uploaded data. With weighted danger elements a particular segment could be rated at various time tranches.

It seems to me that this is what Strava is going to say is impractical or impossible, the business model change that could mitigate these types of lawsuits. But what if they did it instead? Wouldn't Strava come out smelling like a rose while adding value to the site for the people who aren't chasing records? It seems like an opportunity for clever cyclist/programmers.