An application to protect pedestrians and bicycles

Anicet Mbida 06:52, September 22, 2022

Your innovation of the day is a surprising idea to fight against accidents between motorists and bicycles.

We could rely on an application of the “Tous Anti Covid” type.

This is an application that will alert the motorist that a bicycle, pedestrian or scooter that he has not seen is nearby.

Until now, it was a very expensive option, reserved for high-end cars, equipped with radars and cameras.

Instead, this app offers to use Bluetooth technology.

The advantage?

It is already found in most cars and, above all, in all telephones owned by pedestrians and cyclists.

Suddenly, it will work like “All Anti Covid”, when we wanted to know if we had come across someone who tested positive.

The principle will be the same: thanks to Bluetooth, the car will know if there are pedestrians or bicycles around it.

And she'll warn the driver.

It is much cheaper than radars or cameras, which makes the device usable on the majority of vehicles.

All cyclists and all pedestrians will have to have the application and activate Bluetooth?

Yes.

The objective is to consider this application as an additional means to become even more visible to motorists.

Exactly like the rear light at night or the reflective vest.

This is all the more important as there are more and more 4x4s, SUVs… bigger and bigger cars which often offer less visibility.

This increases the risk of masking a pedestrian or a bicycle.

This will only work if everyone installs the app.

Could it become a new way to track us?

It is true that this is one of the reasons for the failure of the “Tous Anti Covid” application.

But I tell myself that this system, for the moment offered only by Ford, could be standardized and then generalized to all manufacturers as well as to all telephones, with mechanisms that guarantee anonymity.

This will not suddenly prevent accidents with bicycles and pedestrians.

But it can become a cheap way to alert distracted drivers.