Is this a good or bad idea/product?

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The video music is terrible and it is not my video, so don't hate me.


besides being "flashy" I could see some actually benefits to a product such as this for night riding (if used properly)

But like everything else it will most likely be used to annoy other due to the "Look at me!" culture..
 
Jampy00 said:
The video music is terrible and it is not my video, so don't hate me.


besides being "flashy" I could see some actually benefits to a product such as this for night riding (if used properly)

But like everything else it will most likely be used to annoy other due to the "Look at me!" culture..
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I looked into this a few years ago. I believe it was quite expensive.

I am on the fence as to whether it would be good or bad. Drivers do weird things when they don't know what they are looking at.
 
Jampy00 said:
The video music is terrible and it is not my video, so don't hate me.


besides being "flashy" I could see some actually benefits to a product such as this for night riding (if used properly)

But like everything else it will most likely be used to annoy other due to the "Look at me!" culture..
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Mostly bad with that implementation. If they had three or four separate zones that tracked your head position (shouldn't be too hard) and lit the zones appropriately, it may be conspicuous and helpful. Flashing green lights all over my helmet are not helpful and just get me a ticket. I want red at the back, orange at the sides and white at the front. You also get a ticket for sticking something to you helmet with the current implementation.

Garmin has an interesting system for bicycles that uses a radar to watch for vehicles approaching from the rear. If the vehicle gets too close, it warns the rider and sends the rear light into seizure mode to try to get the attention of the driver. It may be possible to adapt something like that to a motorcycle (although I am more concerned about traffic from the front than from the rear). Getting the logic right so it flashed the warning lights only at appropriate times would be difficult.
 
Interesting ... doubt any ticket would get written for it as I imagine the cops would see it as a safety device to make the biker more visible so they'd understand its use.
 
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As a huge Tron fan/geek, I like it, but wouldn't activate the flashing colour changing feature - it can (and I believe defaults to) a solid colour. The company has posted some videos where they have spoken to cops and none of them have said they would consider it a violation, but that was in BC.
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