Bicycle Turn Signal Jacket
Boing Boing Gadgets reports:
When it comes to bicycle safety, visibility is key. If you want to be safe, you should be lit up like a Christmas tree, with a fluorescent, mile high afro like Sushi K. So I’m a tad skeptical of this DIY Turn Signal Biking Jacket. It’s a nice idea in theory, but surely you can accomplish the same thing by just sticking your arm out in the direction you’re turning. Worse, while you could theoretically substitute a lighter jacket, those blinking signals are only really going to show up against a dark background, so this jacket would sacrifice substantial visibility just to less obviously do something that all good city bikers should already be doing in the first place. A bad idea made more palatable by being totally awesome anyway. I do love the little arc reactor in the middle, though.
Turn Signal Jacket [Leah Buechly]
I have no idea who Sushi K is (if you do, please let me know in a comment. I agree that it’s only good at night. I disagree that using arm signals is optimal, especially at night in pot hole country when you want to keep your hands on the handlebars. Maybe a back-of-helmet version where a tap on the right side gets the right blinker blinking, tap on left for left blinker and tap on front brim turns off the signal?
The LEDs should also be obnoxiously bright.
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