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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) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:30PM (4 children)
You know, if they would only actually use this to catch bike thieves and return stolen bicycles, that might even be an argument for an opt-in system.
Unfortunately, I've never seen a bike registration program anywhere that made a damn bit of difference in the rate of bike theft. The only thing I know of that reduces bike theft is to ride and park in isolated affluent neighborhoods (or countries) where nobody cares about stealing your bike.
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:25PM (3 children)
What countries are those, besides maybe Japan? From what I've read, bike theft is a real problem even in bike-happy Netherlands, and that's a rather affluent country.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 11 2018, @12:02AM (2 children)
Well, nobody cared to steal the bikes _I_ was riding on in Amsterdam, or the countryside in the Netherlands, Belgium or Germany... but, in places like Miami they'd steal anything with two wheels and at least one pedal.
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday January 11 2018, @01:13AM (1 child)
Well that's no surprise, Miami is basically like a 3rd-world country.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 11 2018, @04:19AM
They were shipping them to Haiti via old scows that would dock on the Miami River - layer of bicycles, layer of mattresses, another layer of bicycles... If your bike was stolen, odds were it left the country within a week or less.
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