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What information would your bike send to the car in this example that would help? We're closer to having lidar in all new cars than this mesh network, so "Ther
by dmurray 4mo ago
What information would your bike send to the car in this example that would help?
We're closer to having lidar in all new cars than this mesh network, so "There's a bike behind you travelling approximately X speed" is something the car already knows. "The cyclist requested you not to turn in front of him" - why would anyone ever send anything else?
Perhaps the car can send you a message instead "I'm going to cut you off and there's nothing you can do about it" but even if that might actually improve safety I don't think it's the change you'd want to see.
- bboozzoo 4mo ago> "There's a bike behind you travelling approximately X speed" Funny how garmin varia gives the exact same information but on cars. "There's a car behind you travelling approximately X speed" (which is most often over the speed limit anyway)
- blacksmith_tb 4mo agoThe idea would be more like the car, not the human behind the wheel, would realize that if it right-hooked me that would be bad (read insurance-increasing, citeable offense, etc.) and wait, where the driver would just keep flipping through their playlist and crush me.
- dmurray 4mo agoThis just seems way better and more likely to be solved with lidar, or a similar passive solution, rather than relying on your bike to broadcast "this guy is more vulnerable/faster/more litigious than you expect, so be really sure not to clip him". Even if the network was there, it's a difficult physical/technological problem to figure out everyone's relative position and velocity to suitable precision with something like GPS, or GPS + accelerometers. But mostly solved with lidar.