LightLane by Alex Tee and Evan Gant

A close brush with a distracted driver is enought to intimidate the most avid bikers from riding at night. The problem isn’t just about visibility, as safety lights are effective at capturing the attention of a driver. However, these lights are typically constrained to the bike frame, which highlights only a fraction of the bike’s envelope. Bike lanes have proven to be an effective method of protecting cyclists on congested roads, but only a small fraction of streets have dedicated bike lanes.

Instead of adapting cycling to established bike lanes, the bike lane should adapt to the cyclists. This is the idea behind the LightLane, the concept created by Alex Tee and Evan Gant of Altitude. LightLane pojects a crisply defined virtual bike lane onto pavement, using a laser, providing the driver with a familiar boundary to avoid.

Source: Dustbowl, via Engadget