LightLane Beta Prototype Testing

[Wochensau]

Don't get doored buddy!!

[CranksOnCam]

They need to be projected at least three feet away from the cyclist.

[Gildor31]

Starship Enterprise lights !!!

[clubephonecrypt]

Pode me avisar quando eles estarão a venda? You can let me know when they will go on sale?

(55-85-8868-7001 - speak portuguese)

[ricardohcavalcante]

Irado!

[CorkKNIFE]

The TRON Bike is here. Awesome!

[marc2377]

its a good idea!

gonna buy one when released

[sharonwesh]

Amazingly smart and simple, I want one !

[crazzymaggot]

mom look, UFO is landing :D

[inytay1]

those are nice they improve safty and look vary cool now your next product idea should be to project desighns and words overall good idea

[schumacherenator]

oh but it's okay because he did a hand signal, obviously

[GuitarBizarre]

Yes of course, so all those times I've been yelled at by drivers for no reason other than pedalling in a straight line along a junction-free stretch of road are entirely because I think I rule the road. How dare I keep more than a foot away from the kerb to avoid drains! And how dare I have the GALL to even THINK that a care is perhaps cutting it a little fine when passing me so closely I can tap the window.

Evidently I cannot be trusted to operate a bicycle on a road. Evidently.

[marno76]

lighting for bikes should be improved.

today it costs more than the bike itself.

[cambonlapelouse]

Hey maybe on the next bike that guy could get some gears as well.  He seems to be pedalling awfully fast: maybe change gear every now and again, eh?

[AndrewGronow]

@cambonlapelouse That's called a high cadence. And he's not pedaling that fast..

[TdotFunk]

lol I was thinking the same thing. Working too hard there buddy. lol

[drsquirrel0]

Any more details on this, how it works, when it might be sold etc?

[omgLordLituslol]

neat idea, but it might be a pretty big waste of batteries to have one on the right side... maybe something as simple as a switch to pick which side the light should be on, as in almost all cases all you need is the left one

[technologyms]

excellent idea

[cartoonconn]

Wonderful idea. Not to replace regular lights, but to supplement them obviously. It also gives drivers a hint as to how far away they should stay from cyclists. And since most cars come up from behind, it makes a lot of sense that the lines be behind the bike vs all around (better uses of battery life). Excellent job.

[jiversen]

This is nice idea.. perhaps it might need a little gyro-stabilizing to make it not look so twitchy?

[herenthere]

Red instead of green would help warn off drivers...albeit it wouldn't be as visible..

[vyze]

In some states police use red lights and you might be tagged as impersonating a police officer. Sounds dumb, I know. I had halogen lights in my honda that weren't factory installed and I got a ticket for impersonating a police officer.

[Pilotgeek]

@vyze In some states, everyone uses red lights. Tell the cop to stfu.

[manx71]

I like it. I certainly think that it would help distance a car that is overtaking the bike.

I would love to see it out in the shops. I would buy it.

[okyesplease]

it's a nice idea, especially since cyclists are killed all the time, but it comes off preachy.

i'd like it if it were just there to look cool instead of standoffish

[scribbullproductions]

It's a nice idea, but perhaps the light needs to occupy the front and the back, rather than (just) the sides of the bike? Maybe that would help oncoming traffic and traffic from behind see the bike a little better. The width/brightness of the light line definately needs increasing, perhaps a colour change. I'm glad someones doing something about this problem, though the real solution would be for the government to make bike lanes that are clear and continuous.

[cokker]

Not going to work, you can hardly see the lines until your on top the cyclist and by then it's too late.

BTW, why is he riding that bike like he stole it?

[happyseaurchin]

hehehe

might help a little though :)

perhaps we should get rid of street lights?

[adiosk8r91]

ever think that he would be going that fast to be keeping up with the car behind him? their going that fast so they dont keep traffic backed up because the person recording in the car would be holding up the whole lane

[Gavreeli]

your video would be more convincing if the riders weren't in THE DOOR ZONE which makes your little laser useless.

[meevluv]

So this is supposed to make the driver think you're in a bike lane? That's what I got from the product description, and there is NO WAY a driver will think that's a bike lane. Money would be better spent on red and white blinkies.

[JimexJimex]

Of course I don't think drivers will think it's a bike lane.

But for SURE this laser grabs a LOT of attention which ensures the cyclist's safety, and helps drivers to judge the appropriate distance between the bike and the car.

[wutdaflek]

I don't like it, I don't think it's visible enough and imagine it far less so when behind the wheel of a car facing oncoming traffic headlights and such.

I'd rather have 2 decent high-power LED lights that focus red/white light down onto the road around me in such a way as to simulate the width demonstrated there. In this way you'd be much more visible.

[junugrung]

I do think you need to make the light more visible somehow. If you could light the lanes in 3 dimensional way, as in from bottom to upwards, or, maybe fill the whole lane, or , I quite like your logo in the middle of the lane.

Good luck with the development and I can't wait to see your product out on the roads!

[junugrung]

I LOVE IT!

I think it's really cool and I just don't understand that you didn't win the Bicycle Design Blog competition. You should have won!

The people in the industry do not understand that a new bicycle is not what will get people to ride a bike but a feeling of safety like your amazing device is definitely the key to move forward.

[architallen]

crappy! this products are good for nothing!

[Commando303X]

What in hell is the point of this? It seems to offer no advantage over typical "lights," except, maybe, it can be seen from the sides.

[Kezpipa]

holy crap at 2.12 he almost gets killed going through a red light.

[degnaw]

Its a perfectly legal left on red from a one way road to another one way road. (the car driver with the camera made it too)

[tweetings]

I need one. If another taxi driver comes too close to me I'll bury my D-lock in his head.

[elmt23]

wow this is sooo awesome can't wait to have it on my cool fixie this going to be the thing to have on your bike i'm calling it the next best idea since skinny jeans came out

[kb8618]

if it was a little more visable in brightly lit streets it be better, but ill prob still buy it, i hate biking on streets at night

[davidmartin7777]

Great Idea.

[pennygreeneyes]

Oh, cool! I'd buy it, I bike at night all the time and cars scare the crap out of me.

[saidinjest]

Looks awesome.

And about the red light thing...

get over it!

[Jayve1]

Like the idea! :)

[cadd918]

My goal would be trying to touch the laser with my front tire.

[julittok]

Me too XD !!

[efmr89]

like a dog trying to bite his own tail....

[darkeneddreams]

Good idea, needs improving though. Like the laser is only trailing the cyclist, if the laser could be created so its positioned front and rear @cycle@ lane, then I'm sure that would have much greater effect.

[Focoist911]

You'd just need have one on the front then. But its the most common accident being hit by a car from behind.

Its a good idea from backyard inventor. Technology already all existed, just a concept idea, easy to patent, easy to sell, will make the guy some good money.

[CycleFreak7]

Hey you dolts complaining about the cyclist running red lights. First of all, only once did that happen and more importantly it is completely legal to make a left on red from a one-way street onto another one-way street.

As usual, the motorists were not paying attention.

[Focoist911]

Its entirely legal to run a red light in Brasil at night.

And if you try in that system it makes sense and makes the west look stupid where at 4am, streets empty and a sticky red-light you decide to push on and some cops see you and fine you for being entirely practical.

I couldn't live in west again. You people are slaves to some elite Zionists who own all your utilities and control you like ants in an ant farm.

[koshua]

Brazil is a Western industrialised capitalist democracy with unfulfilled socialist pretensions. Have fun in your dream bubble.

[lerchiosi]

its not illegal to run a red light on a push bike !

[VegasBD]

Of course the biker goes thru several red lights....typical

[skincarefanatic]

That is a fab invention.

Whats the bet tho that the UK powers that be will try n ban it??!!!

I hope not its belting!!!!1

[mabono5]

I think its a fantastic idea! Will definatly buy one when they are out!

[emrebemre]

i'm pretty sure there will be drivers around who are aiming the put their tyres between the green line and the bike...

[ConceptVBS]

Might want to wear some reflective materials while cycling in the night.

[kuddl]

Great!

You got your fantastic laser Thingy, but you cross a red traffic light (video@2:00).

That says it all.

Partly good thoughts an ideas but not enuf brain to follow the rules.

Sorry, first learn and follow the rules, wear a helmet, attach lights, wear reflexting clothes (cat-eye thingys) and then, maybe if you got the money left attach some Michael Knight stylish laser swrods....

[yeluac]

Great idea, but it'd be better if the lasers could vaporize any traffic foolish enough to breach your lane.

Free idea for you there!

Seriously, very cool. Great work.

[b0rken]

Cycling at night is unsafe due to the vast brightness difference between the light from oncoming cars' headlights and the rider's tail lights, when viewed from behind, and the light of passing cars' headlights compared to the rider's front lights. Even with blinkies, in traffic, riders are hard to see. This device does nothing to address this. You'd be safer with a light sensor directing a LED array into the gaze of motorists approaching from the rear - which in turn would look like antagonism.

[ministrymoments]

what a fantastic idea! but why is there no audio explaining who designed it and telling me how i can buy one?

[rccone]

no thanks. the problem is not the bikes, its the cars..remember?

[gulzra]

I agree that drivers are part of the problem, but I think this is a fantastic idea. It reminds drivers that cyclists are on the road and part of road traffic.