Amazing Invention

Steoob

Just came across this on yahoo news and was astounded by it. http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/24062009/36/cyclists-divert-cars-laser-beams-0.html

Ryaner

Read about this a few months back. The idea looked good back then but that video, not so good.

Húrin

Ceen it. It is spectacular but I fear it would be yet another invention that makes cyclists look weird.

thecornflake

cars dont care about atual cycle lanes , what makes people think they will care about a light ?

Al Wright

While cycling in cycle lanes I was hit by motorists twice in the last 12 months. I'm getting on in years and don't bounce off the road as well as I used to, I tend to get quite angry. While undergoing my annual check-up, I explained the situation to my GP and asked whether the anger in this case was more due to age factor. He cycles himself and brought me out the back to show me his bike. He has fitted a piece of a pallisade fence slat, that with the ragged end projecting out approx 18 inches on the RHS from his carrier. His experience is that motorists tend to give him wider clearance since he had this fitted.
How's that for a simple safety device.
I haven't taken up the idea in case if I'm hit again and survive I would be tempted to use the slat for another purpose.

Húrin

That's funny. I cycle all over Dublin every day and I've never been hit by a car.

ArseBurger

thecornflake wrote: »

cars dont care about atual cycle lanes , what makes people think they will care about a light ?

Any light on a cyclist at night is a good light.

Jawgap

It looks pretty good - but it's a pity they couldn't ramp up the power of the lasers so you could vapourise the next car to cut you off!!

DePurpereWolf

I agree, lasers aimed at the car driver's eyes would be much better.

Why does the muppet in the picture of the OP not have lights on his bike?
Not even reflectors.

Kinetic^

Frickin' laser beam! ......but what do we do during the day? Or just wait to do all our cycling at night?

xz

Húrin wrote: »

That's funny. I cycle all over Dublin every day and I've never been hit by a car.

OH, OH You've gone and said a boo boo now:D

tomasrojo

Húrin wrote: »

Ceen it. It is spectacular but I fear it would be yet another invention that makes cyclists look weird.

I tend to agree. Good lights have already been invented. This isn't needed.

I think small lights worn around the wrists are a better idea, if one really wants to augment a set of standard lights. That way you can alert someone who is bearing down on you or waiting at a side street to your presence if the standard lights have been lost in motion camouflage. They don't have to be terribly bright either. It's the waving motion that makes the conspicuous.

tomasrojo

tomasrojo wrote: »

I tend to agree. Good lights have already been invented. This isn't needed.

I think small lights worn around the wrists are a better idea, if one really wants to augment a set of standard lights. That way you can alert someone who is bearing down on you or waiting at a side street to your presence if the standard lights have been lost in motion camouflage. They don't have to be terribly bright either. It's the waving motion that makes the conspicuous.

Actually, now I think about it, is it possible this device would mean _closer_ passes by motorists. Cycle lanes actually prompt closer passes
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.meg/wcc/report/cycle-lanes.pdf
, which is why they should be 2m wide. That projected image looks like a narrow cycle lane.

Chips Lovell

plank = not aero