Emily mentions how it’s not very visibile in the daytime- it coudl be though. Even if it requires a gyroscope going beyond brightness- well beyond what she offers- to road writing and essentially all but vibrating as we see in cars to alert car users- to putting real animations not just writing or icons on the road will save many lives and make misses far more rarer. The laser can detect and respond to intrusions in our path… And have you ridden on any path with bike following lights as at Davis? That is a bit spooky but enables off griding any dark path as it cuts power consumption obviously incredibly in paths not continously dense with users.

I had hoped to get through all the active at least projects with keyword light- but only saw too many it seems desperate to donate supporters without confirming I had seen them all. Dont’ spent hundreds on a merely bright light- demand real innovation and performance at least if you drop that much. The latest LED’s are ‘field’ removable in ‘jacks’ that don’t require soldering. I’ve supported ac powered wiring on bikes even though I’ve joined the consensus that almost wants to ban ac power for the one percent of electricity used for computation- literally that now about of all electrons sold! Being cost efficient to allow adoption NOW saves lives over worrying about watts. I’d love to see lots of people plugging into there portable E-juice boxes even with usb only but ideally ac jacks into even dry ice dependent for cooling seul 17 watt pluginreadytobebrilliantasonepresentlyistoldwecan’tafford assemblies as you can buy those for under twenty bucks and have full dimmability down from nearly two thousand lumens. (dry ice to absorb even ten watts not shined we won’t notice the cost or weight of every day even hours a day) Emily could bring far more of her physics past forward to top her noted accomplishment so far by miniaturizing laser projection and even spraying water to write on the mist from is within reason. So much more should be done with technology to give notice of our presence in sound as well- air horns are after all quintessentially obsolete not just underutilized given there awesome needed if insufficiently welcome shriek. We may know or at least pathetically bray about how much more even we are valuable in our lives as are dogs- but when a dog dies for lack of a heat alarm in some cops backseat cost is almost no object and cars without auto-opening windows and sirens literally if detected in the future as thermally dangerous become the norm within that best friends fatalities awareness geographically as the least that can be done (and in mere weeks if that)- why not for us our own after all masters as well? A bike light that does not put an icon on the pavement well ahead of our physical being is a defective implementation and those who peddle such lights especially expensive ones should lose there shirts maybe even if they try to get waivers from there customers. When we buy almost anything we expect a bar code- but expensive cars are still not equipped with scanners to warn drivers of our presence- because we still demand -even to save many of our lives for sure- almost nothing seriously. In fact the same cop car that scans every plate has a blind spot for us and probably has killed more then one of us already for lacking such ‘one way’ scanning. (no sonar/radar etc. is necessary- we’ve cut a affordably machine recognizable image even without formal ‘coding’ marks for years now- and only because we are not dangerous to car users do they dare still engineer them anew with obliviousness to what else is on the road especially us)

Too many of us spend far too much without getting much additional value. For far less then what it costs to drive we can be what a dozen times as safe as those of us who spend much more then that biking on mere gimmicks and vanity at best.

Earn the investment you make by buying with awareness of what should be offered and it shall be. I don’t know of a bike light that’s worth $200 bucks right now- considering what Emily offers and what can be had from MOUSER in it’s complete but for battery ‘light’ engine for even FIFTEEN. For $200 in fact a laser ‘should’ warn us of anything it ‘see’s that might puncture etc. us. Nothing offered in cars in electronics should be denied us- most of us spend more on bikes who bike seriously then far more have to spend upfront and thereafter to be street legal in gasoline grossosities. There are too many bike dealers- a doubly class action against even most of them for taking our money ever more gougingly then ‘adult’ mobility dealers do would be evolutionary. I say people who bike care about safety as well but nothing in the stores confirms that. This is our y2k- barely a transistor on board our carriages still, when it’s now year the 13th beyond that. I know what a bike is- everybody else fetishes antiques or is hustled into largely. Back in the years of bikes reigning the people who made them did there best- that’s all we should demand now.

This really drives home the need for better mental healthcare in the country. Dorner himself points to his depression since his firing, and I question how much those two concussions he mentions may have impacted him, as well.

Agreed that murderous rampage probably isn’t the best strategy for clearing his name. Aside from that, he sounds like somebody I might have enjoyed hanging out with.