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Old 10-24-18 | 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by noglider
.... I don't believe drivers are distracted by images on the ground. They do not look at the ground at all, I believe, which is what makes them useless. Next time you cycle or drive at night, ask yourself if you're looking at images on the ground, even beams of light.
To date I've not seen any one using a laser projector on a bike in person. As I do a great deal of my job while driving on the road at night I can't help but notice what is on the ground in front and to the near front of my car. Failure to do this would have me constantly hitting large pot holes or any small object that might be in the road. This is not saying I don't agree with you. In all likely-hood seeing something like the image of a bike projected on the ground in front of a bike is not something I feel I'm likely to see unless I'm stopped at a light and happen to be the first car with no one in front of me. If I do end up seeing the image I figure it's quite likely that I've already seen the cyclist and I'm already parallel to the cyclist or on near approach. If that's true I fail to see the advantage of using something like that. What's more important; seeing the cyclist or seeing some stupid image on the ground 20 ft. ahead of the cyclist?

I take back what I said about a moving image on the road being dangerously distracting. Pot holes, road kill and objects on the road, those can be distracting.
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