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skinny-
As Frank said, I didn't think it was legal on public roads so that means it's only useful in the very few closed-circuit races that happen each year.
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With a few hundred thousand in the bank, you think CTT could invest
Why? It achieves precisely nothing, because it still needs a time keeper to do a manual back up. We time to whole seconds, so there's no call for greater precision. Transponder timing is a solution in search of a problem which time trialling simply doesn't have.
hippy
gbj_tester
If everyone is timed by the same person the error margin should be pretty similar. Whereas a failure of the electronic timing might mean DNF (unless there's human backup) rather than minute error in time. Just make sure you win by minutes rather than seconds if it bothers you..