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from the everyone-must-carry-a-radio dept.
Trek joins with Ford to propose bicycle to vehicle communications, as an addition to already proposed vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communications.
http://www.velonews.com/2018/01/news/trek-takes-a-high-tech-approach-to-save-cyclists-lives_454307
The system connects vehicles to a larger communications system, which means cars can communicate with other vehicles, pedestrian devices, bicycles, roadside signs, and construction zones.
A cyclist would ride with B2V-enabled equipment, initially manufactured by Trek or Bontrager. Or, he or she could have a mobile app with C-V2X. The driver would then be alerted by their car when a cyclist is present in a potentially dangerous area.
Trek partnered with a company named Tome, who also add in the buzzword, "AI-based" to make sure you know that they are really with it. No mention of the power requirements for this system, and how they can be met within the extremely small power capability of a bike rider, or even the small battery system used on e-bikes.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Sulla on Wednesday January 10 2018, @08:25PM (1 child)
Where I live we have a lot of trees, a lot of alleys, and a lot of bikers. On any given morning I can be tracking two or three cyclists to see what they are doing and have another shoot out from a alley and cut off my truck. Ideally motorists will pay attention to what is going on around them but you can't always predict when a cyclist will decide to act like a vehicle instead of a pedestrian and cut out into the road to cut you off before a traffic light or stop sign, or run a red light because they decided they are a pedestrian again, or dart out of a back alley or parking lot across a 35mph road instead of going into the bike lane or going to a light.
My only use for this would be a legal defense when a biker eventually pulls out from a back alley into me. Cyclists and motorists both have a part to play in mutual safety, but I see a lot more cyclists cutting off motorists than the other way around.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:42PM
> My only use for this would be a legal defense when a biker eventually pulls out from a back alley into me.
Get a dashcam.