Accidents that occur from behind

[TegwynTwmffat]

Hello Folks!

I'm researching a potential new product based on Artificial Intelligence to help prevent cycling accidents caused by car drivers hitting cyclists from behind. If people have got a space 60 seconds, please could they fill out the following questionnaire:

https://goo.gl/forms/WZeqFY2BoI2kCcXi1

Many thanks! (This actually happened to me one day)

 

[steveindenmark]

Bright coloured cyclists, straight road, escorted by another car.

You can have multiple rear lights. But if the driver is on the phone or not looking anything you design wont help.

https://road.cc/content/news/254752...ocking-video-french-motorist-smashing-him-and

 

[Markymark]

If you get hit from behind how can that be an accident?

 

[Drago]

Some kind of rear facing CIWS?

 

[alicat]

I stopped after about question 4. The survey seemed to have morphed away from devices that could stop us getting hit from behind into a more general survey and then back to me doing the thinking instead of the inventor.

 

[Slick]

For what it's worth, I completed it.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Have you tried asking on the various motoring or trucking forums like Pistonheads etc?

Because if you want to tackle the problem of bike riders being hit from behind then that's where the problem (and the solution) lies.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Is it a spike in their steering wheels that extends based on how fast they are approaching a vulnerable road user?

 

[classic33]

@TegwynTwmffat, before having a gander at the survey, would you be willing to say if the device is aimed at cyclists wishing to be avoided being rear-ended. Or for the following vehicle, to stop them rear ending the cyclist?

I'm asking, having been pushed onto a roundabout, by a driver "who could do it" so decided to. Will not fit into the "accident" bracket for the survey.

 

[Drago]

Ok. You're at the lights, a 942 tonne artic with a crazed loon driver is bearing down and has come into range of the sensor of your bike. Even if the range were 30 feet, at 30 MPH you'll be dead before your synapses give you a chance to react. And if if you have ninja like reflexes, what can you do? Levitate? Activate the ejector seat?

Make anti collision radar and auto braking mandatory in all motor vehicles if you really want to stop people getting rear ended.