{"id":3447,"date":"2009-08-04T13:40:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T11:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:38:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:38:17","slug":"lightlane-you-will-love-this-new-invention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3447","title":{"rendered":"LightLane &#8211; you will love this new invention!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3449 alignright\" title=\"lightlane\" src=\"http:\/\/morten.me\/wp-content\/lightlane.png\" alt=\"lightlane\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/>Bike lanes are an effective means of improving safety for cyclists. If there is no bike lane, why not bring your on?<\/p>\n<p>Designers Alex Tee and Evan Gant from\u00a0Massachusetts\u00a0are hoping their LightLane bicycle add-on will make bicycling safer at night. One key is that the lane establishes a well-defined boundary beyond the envelope of the bicycle, providing a greater margin of safety between the car and the cycist.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0system projects a crisply defined virtual bike lane onto pavement, using a laser, providing the driver with a familiar boundary to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>However, due to the high cost of installation, bike lanes are not widely available. Instead of forcing cyclists to adapt their behavior to the existing infrastructure, the bike lane should adapt to the cyclist.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this video (no audio):<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WOU563OvpUY&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WOU563OvpUY&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightlanebike.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visit Lightlane&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Stine Lorentzen for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bike lanes are an effective means of improving safety for cyclists. If there is no bike lane, why not bring your on? Designers Alex Tee and Evan Gant from\u00a0Massachusetts\u00a0are hoping their LightLane bicycle add-on will make bicycling safer at night. One key is that the lane establishes a well-defined boundary beyond the envelope of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4302,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/4302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}