This is a pretty cool concept, not yet in production. Using super-bright LEDs, this clip-on gizmo projects the outline of a bike lane behind your cycle, so cars coming up behind you have a bit of subconscious nudge to give you room.
I’m not sure what it would look like if you were rounding a corner, or if you were wobbling back and forth a bit, like many cyclists do, but the idea I find appealing.
Of course, how long before it gets co-opted by advertisers?
Although it as apparently produced in 2001, this video feels much older. It has the classic amateur production values and the inoffensive mommy-state feel of a government safety video, making it almost impossible to date, unless you look at the clothes and hairstyles.
It’s courtesy the group public.resource.org, which (among other things) likes to check out public domain videos from the government archives and digitize them for all. That deserves a great big yay in my opinion.
So, sit back and learn how to prepare your office for the Big One:
See some of their other videos on their YouTube channel.
What I really find interesting is that when I stumbled on this video a couple of days ago, it had only five views. As I post it now, there are 45. I’m curious to watch how many views it’ll get in the next little while.
