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Tech similar to this already exists. My rear bike light is also a radar that informs me of oncoming traffic. https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/601468 https://bu
by sunpazed 6y ago
Tech similar to this already exists. My rear bike light is also a radar that informs me of oncoming traffic. https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/601468 https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/601468
It works really well, but requires the cyclist to assess the risk and react. Something like this, that could inform both myself and the driver of an impending collision, would be (literally) a life saver.
- ramzyo 6y agoThis seems like a great future application of V2X. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-everything https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-everything
- Luxonis-Brandon 6y agoYes, totally agree on V2X. That’s another hard infrastructure problem though… as it requires so many parties to adopt it (and implement it properly) for it to really help. We did talk to a bunch of V2X folks on this though to see how we could make an integration happen… but no traction so far.
- Luxonis-Brandon 6y agoLuxonis-Brandon here. :-) Thanks for the reassuring words sunpazed! Yes, that’s exactly right... where the Garmin product is great for alerting the rider there exists a vehicle behind them - which is SUPER useful for touring riders - this alerts the rider and the driver of an impending collision. Which is what makes it applicable to bicycle commuting, where say 500 safe passes occur per commute, and you only care about the one that’s going to hit you. Radar works great for presence, but is extremely expensive compared to computer vision for determining exact positioning and 3D trajectory. And computer vision (specifically the combination of stereo CV/AI) is actually super-good at this, and can see quite granularly (i.e. 1 million depth points every 60 times a second out to ~20 meters).