Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider

hh4m writes "Whether it's San Francisco, New York, or any bicyclistic city in between, you're destined to witness biker after biker dancing with danger, especially at night when visibility is uncomfortably low. Alex Tee and Evan Gant's LightLane device was recently just a concept but is soon to enter reality as a much-needed visual declaration of personal biking space. With a dire shortage of dedicated lanes, LightLane provides urban cyclists with a solution that adapts to them and any route they make take. The compact projector mounts easily to the rear of a bike frame and projects a bike lane-inspired linear pattern that provides great visibility and a familiarity that helps catch a driver's attention."

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Re:Here's a thought...

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and.... you're the jerk that causes accidents. You have a baseless sense of entitlement. The road IS for CARS. When there is a BIKE LANE, it is for BOTH CARS and BIKES.

You know, ignorance of the law is no excuse in the eyes of the law, right?

Right back at you. Just because you WANT it to be the law, does not make it so. I actually know my local laws, do you? In most places in the U.S it's called the Revised Statutes. You can even pick up pamphlets and check websites for the laws. Ignorance really is not an excuse, I wholeheartedly agree with you. In order to drive, I had to understand the local laws. In order to ride a bicycle on a paved road with other motorists, I see no reason why it should be different. Either that, or stick to the sidewalks.

If you're upset that you don't have enough bike lanes where you are then get together and form a group. Press your local politicians to add access for bicyclists. That maybe if it was much safer for all of you, that more people would choose it. More of a green solution and get's people exercise. Heck, even go militant and start painting bike lanes yourself.

If your upset about cars on the road, then form group and try to get them banned.

How does that even make sense? The roads were designed for cars, not bikes from the very beginning. We did not pave roads for the bikes, gimme a break. We paved them for the cars. If I wanted to INCREASE the areas in which bikes are accommodated (note the emphasis), then I would not want to ban cars, but increase bike lanes, education and awareness among all concerned.

I think you just tried flipping the argument around really fast thinking it somehow made sense when you looked at from a difference perspective without realizing it made absolutely no sense at all.

Your complaint about "safe room to pass" completely, and in accordance with your poor attitude, ignores the fact that those roads were not designed to have both a car and a bike in that space. If it were, after all, there might be a bike lane. While you're "pissing off" the cars behind you that have to slow down do you realize that by doing so you are creating an environment where it is more likely for accidents to occur? I bet not.

I love when I see people like you stuck behing a tractor, combine or swather. There's no way you can bully a vehicle of that size, so the best you can do is sit in your car turning purple. That's really funny to watch.

Nice. You're making assumptions about me trying to create negative characterizations of my possible behaviors since it would suit your arguments. The vehicles you speak of do have a right to be on the road, MORE than a bicycle does. I don't get "purple". I just slow down. Most of time the people driving them are very courteous and when they see a really long line form they find the closest area to pull over and let traffic pass. So do 18 wheelers (tractor trailers) on the Interstates.

That's a far cry different then from the "problem" bicyclists that will stay in the lane for mile after mile slowing down traffic "to make a point".

You're fairly stupid too. Do you realize that you are directly, and petulantly, confronting people in multi-ton objects that can move faster and with more force than you, and have considerably more safety features (and the ability to withstand crashes) than you do? That's not flaming, but an honest assesment of your behavior. But, that's okay. Be right. DEAD right.

Out of interest, if I changed the game by (eg) carrying around an RPG-7 on my bike does that make it OK? You see, then I'm confronting a multi-ton object wich has no defense in the face of superior firepower. That way, I can be wrong but very much alive. By your (lack of) logic, this is the

Re:Nice thought, bad planning

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You're being simplistic. Have you or anyone you cared about been in an accident? Even one at 45mph or less? There can be fantastic damage and lasting physical ailments.

It's interesting in your possible scenario that you make these assumptions about what car goes where. From the accidents I have seen, and after talking with accident reconstructionist friends, cars hardly end up where you expect them too.

I am talking about a mountain road where there is a CLIFF over the side. The longer I am slowing down traffic around me, the GREATER risk I am at from other aggressive drivers. So are the people around me. You conveniently ignore that.

Intimidation has nothing to do with it. I am just keenly aware that when people come up real fast behind me, and there is a line forming, that we ALL become at greater risk. Just thinking ahead.

You can continue to assume everything will just be all right, I like to to be aware of my surroundings and when the "statistics" decidedly change to my disadvantage I like to take corrective action to the best of my ability. If that means being forced to get a little closer than comfort allows to the bicyclist while getting the "hell away from him", so be it. He didn't have a right to be there in the first place (the laws where I live), and it is not fair of him to decide that I am destined to be on the bottom of a cliff.

Please note, I am talking about the mountain road example. In city traffic or other roads where I can see bicyclists in advance, I just make a lane change and get as far away from them as possible. I don't even like them being 2 feet away from the side of my car.

Bicycles on the roads are just plain dangerous when there is not allocated space for them. That's just being rational and reasonable. Once again, where I am, they don't have a right to be ANYWHERE ELSE. I checked.