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Old 09-20-18 | 02:45 PM
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Bikes: A bunch of old steel bikes

Product design and manufacture is the easy part. Ensuring effectiveness of the product is the difficulty. Yep, you can easily light something up; however making that light communicate something to a motorist is a whole 'nuther thing all together. The problem with indicator lights on a bike is that, because of the narrow distance between lights, there is not really a reliably perceived reference. Even something like an animated LED arrow could be misinterpreted by a driver.

I recommend scouting your Library for a copy of the Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics. It has a great discussion on signalling devices.
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