Cool idea but would have to be secondary to another forward facing light right?
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Nice idea in principle, but unless the grid can be projected far enough in front of the rider, there would be insufficient time to react to potholes etc.
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Reminds me of a programme from the early 80's where the protagonist was a robot or hologram or something. Mostly he was a bloke in a poloneck with that kind of grid superimposed on it, but he'd turn into a Lamborghini from time to time, also with that grid on it.
It doesn't appear to have stood the test of time.
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"It doesn't appear to have stood the test of time."
looks pretty funky though :) Love the retro-80s look! Can pretend I'm on a lightbike, or something.
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Reminds me of a programme
I was going to suggest the Vortex, from The Adventure Game, but I don't remember a polo-necked bloke or Lamborghinis. That sounds more like Pole Position or something.
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Agree with amir, that you'd need it to shine out to about 5metres if you wanted reasonable time to react at 15mph or so. Great idea though, looks fab.
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Hmm. It strikes me that if you also took video footage of the illuminated patch, it sould be possible to perform some post-processing of the image to determine the quality of the road surface. GPS would pinpoint the bad holes. Scaled up, a higher resolution version could be used on a council vehicle ....surely a highly efficient way of determining which roads to resurface next?
Ah well. Back to reality.Posted 10 years ago # -
Reminds me of a programme
Automan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutomanUse to love that show, when I were a lad
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@Snowy I remember reading on one of the Dutch bike blogs (A view from the cycle path or Bicycle Dutch) that their local municipality uses some sort of automatic surface-scanning vehicle to do an annual survey of the state of the surface of all cycle paths and roads, and that this helps them to decide priorities for resurfacing and rebuilding. This is what it's like over in the first world.
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"automatic surface-scanning vehicle to do an annual survey of the state of the surface of all cycle paths and roads"
I think Edinburgh roads were done a couple of years ago.
Don't seem to have done anything with the data...
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