Radar technology shouldn't only be available for luxury automobiles and self-driving cars ... we cyclists need it too! |
Over 50,000 cyclists in the US are killed or injured every year in an automobile accident.
Dedicated bike lanes are making the roads much safer, but there's still a long way to go.
Dedicated bike lanes are making the roads much safer, but there's still a long way to go.
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Imagine being alerted when a car is coming up behind you or is approaching in one of your blind-spots, giving you the ability to react before it's too late.
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Technology that can not only help make you more aware, but alert the oncoming driver as well.
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Awareness Technology for Bicyclists
We're getting close to making this bicycle radar technology a reality, working now on our second functional prototype for some user-testing out on the road.
Here are a couple of pictures of our very first functional prototype, using an ultrasonic sensor.
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This proved to be accurate for short distances, but not long enough distances to make Velalert a useful tool for bicyclists. So we shifted our focus to LIDAR and are now very close to version 2 of a functional bicycle radar prototype.
These videos are of the first LIDAR system for Velalert being tested prior to mounting it on to a bicycle for more user-testing. We dubbed this guy the "Johnny Five" prototype in honor of his predecessor from the movie Short Circuit.
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This latest LIDAR system will be ready for testing on a bicycle very soon and the initial results look very promising!
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